Rebel Quotes - Page 5

• He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

  Thomas Paine

  Real, Tyrants, Titles

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THOMAS PAINE Ultimate Collection: Political Works, Philosophical Writings, Speeches, Letters & Biography (Including Common Sense, The Rights of Man & The Age of Reason): The American Crisis, The Constitution of 1795, Declaration of Rights, Agrarian Justice, The Republican Proclamation, Anti-Monarchal Essay, Letters to Thomas Jefferson and George Washington…”, p.46, e-artnow

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• The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy-the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops

  William Saroyan

  Spiritual, Cheer, Men

  William Saroyan, William E. Justice (2008). “He flies through the air with the greatest of ease: a William Saroyan reader”, Heyday Books

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• The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

  Kate Winslet

  Children, Stupid, Kids

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• I am a rebel by birth... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.

  Yip Harburg

  Strong, Thinking, Feelings

  "Yip Harburg: Secular Songwriter" by Dan Barker in "Freethought Today", Volume, 22, No. 3, April 2005.

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• From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.

  George Orwell

  Dying, Generations, World

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.454, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

  Harold Ramis

  Character, Winning, Play

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psycology Today Interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 01, 1996.

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• Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

  C. S. Lewis

  Exercise, Thought Provoking, Generations

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• People who go out and try to be a rebel at night,
  Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life.

  Immortal Technique

  Rap, Night, People

  Song: Crimes of the Heart, Album: The 3rd World

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• Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief.

  Lord Byron

  Tyrants, Neglect, Chiefs

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1436, Delphi Classics

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• We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Machines, Earth

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.221, Oxford University Press

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• For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited me. Seeing this story of the Underground Railroad ... and that is such a proud part of our history that not a lot of us know about, where these brave men and women, they were heroes, really helped tear down the system of slavery just by running.

  Jurnee Smollett

  Running, Hero, Men

  "Jurnee Smollett-Bell Gets Deep About Underground, a Slave Narrative That Will Make You Proud to Be Black". Interview with Ronda Racha Penrice, www.theroot.com. March 9, 2016.

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• I always wanted to rebel.

  Kim Gordon

  Wanted

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• The function of the rebel is to shake the fixated mores of the rigid order of civilization; and this shaking, though painful, is necessary if the society is to be saved from boredom and apathy. Obviously I do not refer to everyone who calls himself a rebel, but only to the authentic rebel. Civilization gets its first flower from the rebel.

  Rollo May

  Flower, Order, Civilization

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.222, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Adoption, Should

  Thomas Jefferson, Martin Alfred Larson (1981). “Jefferson, magnificent populist”, Devin-Adair Pub

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• I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

  Josh Turner

  People, Way

  "On Track with Country Artist Josh Turner". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.

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• College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

  Stephen Graham

  College, People, Authority

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• I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.

  Billy Crystal

  Children, Teenager, Angry

  "Billy Crystal: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• Institutions are essential in order to preserve the achievement of the past, but the original creative impulse in every age comes from the amateur, the rebel, the breaker of idols.

  Robert Gordis

  Creativity, Past, Order

  Robert Gordis (1960). “A Faith for Moderns”

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• In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.

  Chip Conley

  Etiquette

  "The Five Fundamentals of Management Etiquette" by Chip Conley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Integrity, Parent

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• I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel, children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

  Russell Brand

  Children, Regret, School

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• Don't murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial.

  T. B. Joshua

  Adversity, Trials, Trust In God

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• It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Obscurity, Human Nature, Humans

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• God's love is so extravagant and so inexplicable that he loved us before we were us. He loved us before we existed. He knew many of us would reject him, hate him, curse him, rebel against him. Yet he chose to love us. God loves us because he is love.

  Judah Smith

  Hate, Love Is, God Love

  Judah Smith (2015). “Jesus Is For You: Stories of God's Relentless Love”, p.15, Thomas Nelson

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• Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
  And it stings you for your pains;
  Grasp it like a man of mettle,
  And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures:
  Use 'em kindly, they rebel;
  But be rough as nutmeg-graters,
  And the rogues obey you well.

  Aaron Hill

  Pain, Men, Ems

  'Verses Written on a Window in Scotland'

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