Rebellious Quotes - Page 12

• I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, "I don't think you can do it." I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.

  Yoko Ono

  Strong, Thinking, Spirit

  Interview with Takashi Murakami, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2009.

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• The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

  Honore de Balzac

  Spirit, Rebellion, Cloaks

  "'Catherine de Medici expliquée' ('About Catherine of Medici')". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1843.

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• Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.

  Robert Motherwell

  Art, Modern Life, Unconventional

  Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”

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• I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I had the opportunity to continue to be very academic, but got less interested in it and became more involved in acting. And then when I was applying for universities I used a couple of places on my UCAS form to apply for drama school without telling anyone... but didn't get into drama school. But that was the most rebellious thing I did.

  Carey Mulligan

  Couple, Drama, School

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for his authority.

  Helen Andelin

  Mother, Father, Home

  Helen Andelin (2013). “Fascinating Womanhood: The Updated Edition of the Classic Bestseller That Shows You How to Strengthen our Marriage and Enrich Your Life”, p.125, Bantam

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• I was never really interested in studies and was hot-headed and rebellious in college, as I was totally confused and insecure but was not coming to terms with it.

  Emraan Hashmi

  Confused, Insecure, College

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• There's also just socially, personally. There is something naughty about pot. There is something that is rebellious and outlawish and a kind of, you know, a finger in the eye of the government saying, hey, you can't tell me what to do. That would be gone if legalize it.

  John Buffalo Mailer

  Eye, Naughty, Kind

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate, naturally all inspired by the logic of the most severe, rigorous and atavistic stupidity.

  William C. Brown

  Party, Views, Stupidity

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• Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.

  John Lydon

  Ideas, Essentials, Culture

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• Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Animal, Numbers

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4489, e-artnow

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• What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Men, Church

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• We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.

  Josh Billings

  Hate, Advice, Despise

  "Josh Billings, His Book of Sayings".

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• The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Political, Society, Events

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• Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

  A. E. Waite

  World, May, Firsts

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• Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards instead of sputtering on the barricades, the government has gladly deprived itself of billions in tax revenues by letting home owners deduct mortgage interest payments.

  Florence King

  Women, Home, Unique

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.91, Macmillan

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• Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

  Ignazio Silone

  Revolution, Fascism

  Ignazio Silone (1963). “The School for Dictators”, New York : Atheneum

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• Why are the people starving?-
  Because their grain is being eaten up by the taxes
  That's why they're starving
  
  Why are people rebellious?-
  Because those above them meddle in their lives
  That's why they're rebellious
  
  Why do people regard death so lightly?-
  Because they are so involved with their own living
  That's why they regard death so lightly
  
  In the end,
  The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on
  and gained by those who let go

  Laozi

  Life, Letting Go, People

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• Then ego goes on growing, because the society needs you as an ego, not as a Self. The Self is irrelevant for the society; your periphery is meaningful. And there are many problems. The ego can be taught and the ego can be made docile and the ego can be forced to be obedient. The ego can be made to adjust, but not the Self. The Self cannot be taught, the Self cannot be forced. The Self is intrinsically rebellious, individual. It cannot be made a part of society.

  Rajneesh

  Meaningful, Self, Ego

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• No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Men, Idiot

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow

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• Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Issues, Thank You God, Thank God

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• I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.

  Carol Gilligan

  Daughter, Roles, Half

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• Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Insulting, Answers, Dignity

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• The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Cities, World, Revolution

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.85, Verso

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• It's so easy to conform and to follow. It's very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.

  Bo Derek

  Believe, People, Decision

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• Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure.

  Edmund White

  Hate, Adventure, Self

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