Rebellion Quotes

The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a lo...

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of...

All the beliefs, habits, tastes, emotions, mental attitudes that characterize our time are really de...

To die hating them, that was freedom

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature ...

Most young people have rebellious, anti-authoritarian impulses. They don't like being told what, whe...

I think we each come out of the womb with some unique way of looking at the world and if we don't ex...

I tell you," said Augustine, "if there is anything that revealed with the strength of a divine law i...

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion a...

[Hegel’s] system of nature seemed, at least to natural philosophers, absolutely crazy….Hegel…launche...

That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working ...

Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?""Yes," said Harry stiffl...

Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?""Yes.""You called her a liar?""Yes.""You told her...

those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.

Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

All of their faces are cluttered with the shrapnel of rebellion, as if a grenade of alienation has e...

I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that m...

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and n...

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion...

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex...

There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's somethin...

The societies kids naturally form are tribal. Gangs, clubs, packs. But we're herded into schools and...

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

She spoke about it with such emphasis (somewhat affected) that I could see at once that I was hearin...

Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events,...

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope ...

What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?""Everything, since he has a command and I have not.

Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.

The difference was not that one was a pessimist and the other an optimist, it was that one's pessimi...

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willin...

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother you...

If we turn to those restrictions that only apply to certain classes of society, we encounter a state...

And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the...

And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with th...

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.

And if we burn, you burn with us.

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then y...

Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so ar...

Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so ar...

Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so ar...

Americans were convinced in their own minds that they were very miserable, and those who think so ar...

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political wo...

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political wo...

It is mainly by resisting authority that the individual defines himself. This is why authorities--wh...

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautiou...

Humans have evolved to their relatively high state by retaining the immature characteristics of thei...

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels a...

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and th...

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself...

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence i...

Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of ...

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political cri...

My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse ...

The old disease, thought Rubashov. Revolutionaries should not think through other people's minds. Or...

And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And ...

But it was women like Rudabeh who planted in my mind the idea of a different kind of woman whose cou...

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and u...

Sin is rebellion against God.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is t...

Sin is rebellion against God.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is t...

Sin is rebellion against God.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is t...

Sin is rebellion against God.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is t...

Sin is rebellion against God.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is t...

Sin is rebellion against God.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is t...

Sin is rebellion against God.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is t...

Sin is rebellion against God.

Satan is the sower of compromise—leaving a bit of God’s truth into the dirty rags of sin. Satan is t...

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny the...

You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know ...

I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by th...

One must avoid snobbery and misanthropy. But one must also be unafraid to criticise those who reach ...

The forces of piety have always and everywhere been the sworn enemy of the open mind and the open bo...

It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as w...

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to h...

Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we’re rebel...

How can even the idea of rebellion against corporate culture stay meaningful when Chrysler Inc. adve...

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say '...

The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. ...

You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the ...