Rebellion Quotes - Page 11

• Spirituality is rebellion; religiousness is orthodoxy. Spirituality is individuality; religiousness is just remaining part of the crowd psychology. Religiousness keeps you a sheep, and spirituality is a lion's roar.

  Rajneesh

  Sheep, Psychology, Individuality

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• Real spirituality is going through fire. Real spirituality is rebellion against all that is rotten, against all that is past, against all that is being forced on you by others, against all conditionings. Real spirituality is the greatest rebellion there is. It is risky, it is adventurous, it is dangerous. So beware of pseudo spirituality which is always there, available, easily available at the door.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Past, Fire

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• Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the habeas corpus law have been worthy of that suspension. They have been either real treasons, wherein the parties might as well have been charged at once, or sham plots, where it was shameful they should ever have been suspected. Yet for the few cases wherein the suspension of the habeas corpus has done real good, that operation is now become habitual and the minds of the nation almost prepared to live under its constant suspension.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Real, Party, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.346

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• Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Civil War, Slavery, Slavery In America

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.12, Penguin

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• If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the fruit in rebellion and thus bringing sin and death into world, then one may as well throw the rest of the Bible away.

  Ken Ham

  Men, Religion, Atheism

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• Meditation is the art of awareness. And once you are aware, out of your awareness your actions will arise - not out of conscience. Conscience is cultivated by others, by the vested interests, by the establishment. Consciousness is yours. It is individual, it is not collective. Conscience is part of the mob psychology. Consciousness gives you dignity because it gives you individuality. It gives you rebellion, it makes you capable of saying yes or no of your own accord. There is no foreign agency manipulating you in the name of religion, morality, etcetera.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Agency, Names

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• What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Compassion, Rose

  Letter to Jean Nicholas Demeunier, 24 Jan. 1786

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• A fear Paul had transformed all these years, like a gifted alchemist, into anger and rebellion.

  Kim Edwards

  Father, Years, Alchemist

  Kim Edwards (2006). “The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel”, p.381, Penguin

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• Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.

  Manuel Gonzalez Flores

  Men, Light, Blood

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• It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Elements, Movement, Revolution

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• Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.

  Marquis de Sade

  Eye, Punishment, Humanity

  Sade (marquis de) (1965). “Selected letters”

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• Criticism is the seed of divorce, and it develops rebellion in our young.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Divorce, Criticism, Young

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• Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Divorce, Criticism, Agents

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• Knowledge enormous makes a God of me.
  Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions,
  Majesties, sovran voices, agonies,
  Creations and destroyings, all at once
  Pour into the wide hollows of my brain,
  And deify me, as if some blithe wine
  Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk,
  And so become immortal.

  John Keats

  Wine, Agony, Names

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.307, e-artnow

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• The king governs without decapitation or (other) corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances (of each case). Even in cases of repeated attempts at wicked rebellion, they only have their right hands cut off.

  Faxian

  Country, Kings, Cutting

  "A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms".

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• In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Inspiration, Age

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• The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God. We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there. Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away

  Bill W.

  Wisdom, Real, Lying

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• If you call it a riot, it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.

  Maxine Waters

  Crazy, Stupid, People

  "Was It a 'Riot,' a 'Disturbance' or a 'Rebellion'?" by Swati Pandey, www.latimes.com. April 29, 2007.

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• I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Atmosphere, Storm, Littles

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1135, Library of America

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• A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Suffering, Rebel

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• On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Exercise, People, Silence

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Success, Failure, Government

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2436, Delphi Classics

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• The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

  Albert Camus

  Peace, Fighting, Evil

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.285, Vintage

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• Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Country, War, Voice

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.148, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is a calamitous difference between a people who have been immersed in paganism for centuries and a post-Christian society. While the culture of the latter may carry a deep tradition influenced by Christian values, its posture of rebellion will give it a direction that is more explicitly and consciously anti-Christian.

  Edmund Clowney

  Christian, Religious, Differences

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