Rebellion Quotes

Marty Rubin

Love is a wild child, always at odds with society.. Marty Rubin
Love is a wild child, always at odds with society.

Kahlil Gibran

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

J.K. Rowling

Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter? Yes, said Harry stiffly.
Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
"Yes," said Harry stiffly.
"Yes, sir."
"There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.

Suzanne Collins

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

Georges Bataille

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

Mike Norton

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.

Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, where they should be apologizing to themselves first, and then the world at large.

Daniel J. Rice

I often wonder what happened to those few I spent my youth in battle beside, those select individuals whom I was drawn to simply by coincidence, whom I joined forces with against an unknown future and a world so large that we depended upon each other because none of us knew a damn thing, and we were all so wise.

John Milton

Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

Bruce Springsteen

You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.

Isaac Marion

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

E.A. Bucchianeri

...it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

Thomm Quackenbush

Pagans earn their reputations for relaxed sexual mores, often in rebellion from the repression of their religions during adolescence. At a Pagan festival, one need only lower one's guard to be offered sex under the cloaking of the sacred.

Ryan Lilly

Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Time is a hard-hearted rebel, we cannot fight him or can we beg him to slow down, wait for us or stop, all we have to do is to obey his strict rules, follow him and run, he doesn't get tired, and we musn't get tired too.

Ray Bradbury

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Elfriede Jelinek

The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. Communists took advantage of supply problems and stirred up gullible people against their very own country.

Italo Calvino

That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working now inside him unsatisfied, making him long for a more intimate link, a relationship which would bind him to each leaf and twig and feather and flutter.

Solange Nicole

I refuse to settle for what you call reality.

Suzanne Collins

And if we burn, you burn with us.

Pat Barker

The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a contract merely because you've changed your mind. You can still speak up for your principles, you can still argue against the ones you're being made to fight for, but in the end you do the job.

Michael Bassey Johnson

God's anger is the toil and suffering of man. Man's anger is the love and worship of his enemy.

Alice Sebold

I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind of rebel. Helpless, really.

Thomas Jerome Baker

What is deemed as “his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by the victors...Now, with the help of the Roman historian Tacitus, I shall tell you Queen Boudicca’s story, her-story……

Veronica Roth

It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace".

Tom Robbins

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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

Vladimir Ilich Lenin

Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.

Cory Doctorow

It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!

Guy Gavriel Kay

If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see if they are still slaves or not when the summer ends.

Jack Iams

I wouldn’t have gone if he’d made me. But it was different, deciding myself. It made staying too easy. It took the...the rebelliousness out of it.'

Peter nodded. 'It’s easy to take the opposite path from the one you’re directed to,' he said. 'It’s much harder to find the right path alone.

Carla H. Krueger

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.

Sanjo Jendayi

Freedom looks beautiful and inspiring to those who desire & seek it; but Freedom looks like rebellion to those who have become complacent in hiding.

Jess C. Scott

He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to people with vain, shallow taste. So of course he manipulates his audiences with the blessing of his recording company and the financial investors behind his brand.

Josh Kun

Here is how the harmful becomes profitable: That which yesterday was reviled today ends up in Urban Outfitters. The critic Rebecca Solnit has summarized it this way: 'Eat your heart out on a plastic tray,' say the Sex Pistols. Now, we know where to buy the tray and what the heart tastes like.

Veronica Roth

Sin embargo, recuerda que, a veces, las personas a las que oprimes se hacen más poderosas de lo que te gustaría.

Jessica Park

You scream it in everything you do. You’re holding on to what happened because you think that’s all you have.”
“It is all I have.”
“Find more

Russell Brand

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

Marty Rubin

All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey.

Tairrie B.

I strike terror among men,
I can't be bothered by what they think.

Lisi Harrison

This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

Ayn Rand

And because she worshipped joy, Kira seldom laughed and did not go to see comedies in theaters. And because she felt a profound rebellion against the weighty, the tragic, the solemn, Kira had a solemn reverence for those songs of defiant gaiety.

Mark Gough

Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.

Anthony Anaxagorou

Rebellion is when you look society in the face and say I understand who you want me to be, but I’m going to show you who I actually am.

Robin Wasserman

It's significantly more satisfying to kick a wall than it is to kick thin air. For the rebellious teen- or the teen who wants to feel like a rebel- a clearly defined law gives you something to define yourself against.

William S. Burroughs

Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid in the Mona Lisa’s face.

E.A. Bucchianeri

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

Mike Sasso

Originality is the best form of rebellion.

Marc Maron

Everyone is a little bitter. We're born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, "No you can't.

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