Rebellion Quotes
Marty Rubin
Love is a wild child, always at odds with society.
3451 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.
2816 J.K. Rowling
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.
1219 Suzanne Collins
I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.
2533 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.
2188 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.
1503 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.
4869 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.
4182 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.
2674 Isaac Marion
...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.
4507 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.
2251 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.
4525 Ryan Lilly
Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.
2953 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.
1652 Ray Bradbury
So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.
3600 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.
3496 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.
1990 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.
4097 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.
3026 Michael Bassey Johnson
God's anger is the toil and suffering of man. Man's anger is the love and worship of his enemy.
1478 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.
1704 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……
4760 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".
3035 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.
4548 Martin Luther King Jr.
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
3738 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!
3566 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.
4861 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.
3068 Carla H. Krueger
When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.
4230 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.
1392 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.
2208 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.
4636 Veronica Roth
Sin embargo, recuerda que, a veces, las personas a las que oprimes se hacen más poderosas de lo que te gustaría.
4516 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
3676 Russell Brand
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
2156 Marty Rubin
All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey.
3454 Tairrie B.
I strike terror among men,
I can't be bothered by what they think.
2498 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?
4590 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.
4985 Mark Gough
Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.
3223 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.
4232 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.
1466 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.
2551 E.A. Bucchianeri
It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.
1841 Mike Sasso
Originality is the best form of rebellion.
2171 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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