Rebel Quotes - Page 9

• Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

  William Petersen

  Odds, Law, Break

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• Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

  Alexander Pope

  God, Angel, Pride

  Alexander Pope (1830). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Etc”, p.46

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• I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.

  Elvis Presley

  Heart, Watches, Causes

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• My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Wisdom, Humble, Pride

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.729, Library of America

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• I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

  Taylor Swift

  Real, Feels, I Can

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• It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

  Taylor Swift

  Parent, Desire, Burning

  "Taylor Swift: the 19-year-old country music star conquering America - and now Britain". www.telegraph.co.uk. April 26, 2009.

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• When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Together, Looks, Urban

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• I've always been in a rebel.

  Donnie Yen

  Uprising

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• Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel angels vowed to continue fighting here on earth." "I don't understand why he had to fight. He was already in heaven." "True. But he wasn't content to serve. He wanted more." "He had all he could ask for, didn't he?" Ann asks. "Exactly." Miss Moore states. "He had to ask. He was dependent upon someone else's whim. It's a terrible thing to have no power of one's own. To be denied.

  Libba Bray

  Angel, Fighting, Missing

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• Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

  Ernest Renan

  Race, Soldier, Noble

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• The crypto currency community hasn't decided whether they want to be anarchist rebels or to replace the establishment.

  Adi Shamir

  Community, Want, Anarchist

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• Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or other to get him to face the question, Are you going to be a fighter or a quarreller?

  Kurt Hahn

  Boys, Faces, Fighter

  "Kurt Hahn: A Life Span in Education and Politics". Book by Robert Birley, p.15, 1966.

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• Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomen. To the same degree that I do not understand power, I do understand those who oppose power, who criticize power, who contest power, especially those who rebel against power imposed by brutality.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Power, Leader, President

  "The Agitator: Oriana Fallaci directs her fury toward Islam" by Margaret Talbot, in The New Yorker, June 5, 2006.

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• The main things to rebel against - over-production, too much technology, overthinking. It's a spoiled mentality; everything is too easy. If you want to record a song, you can buy Pro Tools and record four hundred guitar tracks. That leads to overthinking, which kills any spontaneity and the humanity of the performance.

  Jack White

  Song, Technology, Guitar

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy .

  Anthony de Mello

  Jesus, People, One Day

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• A lot of teenagers, when they're in the business, they want to rebel, because they've been so tied up and stuff. I'm not too tied up. I like to have fun. I just don't see myself getting out of control.

  Justin Bieber

  Fun, Teenager, Want

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.

  Bruce Catton

  War, History, Soldier

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• Above all, we must understand that in leaving the toxic ways of the present we are healing ourselves, our places, and our planet. We rebel not as a last act of desperation but as a first act of creation.

  Sam Smith

  Healing, Leaving, Toxic

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• I don't think I have rebelled against Latina culture. I have rebelled against those who try to make me warm tortillas for my brothers when they can warm them for themselves, I have rebelled against a patriarchal religion. I rebel against small mindedness in all ways and in every situation but those things are not an intrinsic part of Latina culture and I will fight tooth and nail against anyone who tries to make me feel like I'm less Xicana for not embracing the small-mindedness.

  Alice Bag

  Brother, Fighting, Thinking

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• If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels.

  Jack McDevitt

  Children, Successful, Creative

  Jack McDevitt (2007). “Cauldron”, p.105, Penguin

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• Hell was not part of the original creation. Hell is God's fall-back position. Hell is something God was forced to make because people chose to rebel against him and turn against what was best for them and the purpose for which they were created.

  Lee Strobel

  Fall, People, Purpose

  Lee Strobel (2009). “The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity”, p.209, Zondervan

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• Young people are not only rebels. They have a special heart.

  Gloria Trevi

  Heart, People, Special

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• X-Men is not a story about superheroes, but a story about the ongoing revolutionary struggle between good/new and bad/old. The X-Men are every rebel teenager wanting to change the world and make it better. Humanity is every adult, clinging to the past, trying to destroy the future even as he places all his hopes there.

  Grant Morrison

  Teenager, Struggle, Past

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• It is our genetic nature as a species to believe as young children that our parents and elders are right. We watch them to see what's what. Later on we can judge for ourselves and rebel if need be, but when we're just months old, or a year or two, and a parent looks at us with impatience, or disgust, or disdain, or just leaves us there to cry and doesn't answer us even though we're longing to be embraced and nurtured, we assume that something must be wrong with us. Unfortunately, at that age it's impossible to think there might be something wrong with them.

  Jean Liedloff

  Children, Self Esteem, Believe

  "An Interview with Jean Liedloff" by Chris Mercogliano, www.continuum-concept.org.

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• If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.

  Oliver Cromwell

  Kings, Men, Design

  Oliver Cromwell (1970). “The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell: 1599-1649”

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