Rebellious Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• 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 have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Fashion, Blue, Leather Jackets

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• In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

  Aristotle

  May, Revolution, Stakes

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• The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.

  Joseph Conrad

  Philosophical, Ideas, Optimism

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Personal Record”, p.9, Booklassic

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• More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

  Albert Camus

  Hands, Revolution, Found

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.216, Vintage

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• The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Men, Wish

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  People, Vision, Down And

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• If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Age, Desire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.73, Penguin

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• Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

  George Orwell

  Political, Revolution, Needs

  'Inside the Whale' (1940) 'Charles Dickens'

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• Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth. When we open a revolutionary review, or read a revolutionary speech, we yawn our heads off. It is true, there is nothing else. Everything is correctly, monotonously, dishearteningly revolutionary. What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Stupid, Mind

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• The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Military, Hands, Cities

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1984). “Bartleby in Manhattan, and Other Essays”, Vintage

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• Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.

  Paul Weyrich

  Money, Teenager, Trying

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• From a still wider and more comprehensive point of view, universal life itself appears to us as a struggle between multiplicity and unity - a labor and an aspiration towards union. We seem to sense that - whether we conceive it as a divine Being or as a cosmic energy - the Spirit working upon and within all creation is shaping it into order, harmony, and beauty, uniting all beings (some willing but the majority as yet blind and rebellious) with each other through links of love, achieving - slowly and silently, but powerfully and irresistibly - the Supreme Synthesis.

  Roberto Assagioli

  Struggle, Views, Order

  Roberto Assagioli (2000). “Psychosynthesis: a collection of basic writings”, Synthesis Center

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• Thought that is silenced is always rebellious.

  Alan Barth

  Alan Barth, James David Barber (1965). “Heritage of Liberty”

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• Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

  Midge Decter

  Sex, Real, Revolution

  The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation ch. 2 (1972)

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• Written with passion, honesty, humor, and a stubborn, rebellious optimism, Dear Marcus is like nothing I've ever read. When a bullet in the back told Jerry McGill not to go on, Jerry went on-smiling.

  Shalom Auslander

  Honesty, Passion, Optimism

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• God will seek us -- how long? Until he finds us. And when he's found the last little shriveling rebellious soul and has depopulated hell, then death will be swallowed up in victory, and Christ will turn over all things to the Father that he may be all and in all. Then every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

  Clarence Jordan

  Jesus, Father, Long

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• To those who would submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionists, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better. Satan and the rebellious saints of Heaven were allowed a continuous existence in hell merely to swell their just punishment. To such as would rebel against a Government so mild and just as ours was in peace, a punishment equal would not be unjust.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Government, Law, Punishment

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• I was a rebellious kid, always getting into trouble.

  Scott Haze

  Kids, Trouble

  Interview with Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 21, 2014.

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• I don't take crap from anyone, so that makes people think I'm rebellious. I'm not. I'm just not a pushover.

  Kat Dennings

  Thinking, People, Pushovers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature, but, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Pieces, Littles

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.18, Del Rey

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• The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.

  Edward Gibbon

  People, Vain, Disposition

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• I think Kristen is incredibly brave. She played such a good version Bella Swan, people think Kristen Stewart is Bella Swan. She's not, you know? If you meet Kristen, she's wildly kind of giggly and vivacious and rebellious and naughty - all things that Bella Swan isn't.

  Rupert Sanders

  Naughty, Thinking, Swans

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• When you're making an album with people who made your favorite records as a rebellious teenager, it feels like you've achieved something.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Teenager, People, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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