Rebellion Quotes
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility. - Rebecca West
Rebellions of the belly are the worst. - Sir Francis Bacon
The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man. - George Bernard Shaw
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. - Benjamin Franklin
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.- Aristotle
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.- Susan B. Anthony
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.- Isabel Allende
But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.- Archibald Alexander
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.- Abigail Adams
Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.- Cathy Guisewite
The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.- Juan Goytisolo
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.- Khalil Gibran
In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.- Maggie Gallagher
I've always been in a rebel.- Donnie Yen
John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.- John Sergeant Wise
Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.- George C. Williams
Repression will provoke rebellion.- Hugh Williamson
I'm kind of in between a goody-goody and a rebel. I'm not bad, but I'm not good either. I'm a little crazy.- Michelle Wie
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.- Rebecca West
So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.-Phillip E. Johnson
That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.-Lester Bangs
The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.-Algernon Sydney
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.-Andrea Dworkin
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.-Albert Camus
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.-Edwin Louis Cole
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.-Frederick Douglass
The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.-Kevin Patterson
The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.-Iris Chang
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.-Emmeline Pankhurst
There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.-Edward Everett
This writer, and all others of his stamp, should remember that the colonies are now in a state of revolt and rebellion against their rightful sovereign.-James Chalmers
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.-George Orwell
If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.-Charles Inglis
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.-Abigail Adams
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.-H. L. Mencken
It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.-T. E. Lawrence
It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.-Amy Tan
Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.-George C. Williams
Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.-Margaret Lee Runbeck
Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.-Jennifer Capriati
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.-Albert Camus
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.-Barbara Ehrenreich
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.-George Henry Lewes
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.-James Branch Cabell
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.-James Gould Cozzens
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.-Benjamin Franklin
Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!-Marianne Faithfull
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.-William Penn
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.-Khalil Gibran
Repression will provoke rebellion.-Hugh Williamson
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.-Susan B. Anthony
Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.-Eminem