insurgent Quotes

As many have noted, Donald Trump's presidency is an insurgency. Mr. Trump himself is the quintessential insurgent, doing battle with a disingenuous and entrenched establishment.

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

The insurgent can sow disorder anywhere, whereas the counterinsurgent—fighting on behalf of the government—has to maintain order everywhere.

Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

I was an insurgent. I was, you know, an outsider. And I'm not sure that I'm not better being an outsider.

In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is

Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think can't be beat, and going out and meeting folks and talking about your ideas for America and Washington, is a lot of fun and a real privilege.

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

I have to use the word 'insurgent' because I can't think of a better word right now.