Rebellious Quotes - Page 4

• Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Marriage, Regret

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Iron, Age

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• A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

  Mao Zedong

  Party, Writing, Chinese Revolution

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Strong, Mean

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 3, l. 52

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• To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.

  Billie Burke

  Latin, Ambition, Ego

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

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• We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, Literature, Way

  "The Temper of Our Time". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1967.

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• In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Revolution, Invention, Ends

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1896). “Recollections”, p.85, Library of Alexandria

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• The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

  Hannah Arendt

  Dubious, Matter, Violence

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Funny, Science, Ideas

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• I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Revolution, Opinion, Has Beens

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.2490, Delphi Classics

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• I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.

  Harold Bloom

  Thinking, Two, Voice

  Interview with Imre Salusinski in "Criticism in Society", 1987.

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• We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.

  Tom Peters

  Two, People, Supportive

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• To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.

  H. L. Mencken

  Religious, Men, Giving

  Smart Set, Dec. 1920

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  Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

  Samuel Adams

  Rights, Liberty, Together

  Samuel Adams (1946). “Samuel Adams: selections from his writings”

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• Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

  Albert Camus

  Order, History, Creative

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• Revolutions are not made, they come.

  Wendell Phillips

  Revolution, Made

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.36

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• Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Would Be, Amusement

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• It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Nice, Crucifixion Of Christ, Cost

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Thinking, Wells

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.174, Barbour Publishing

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• There are two kinds of people in the world: Submissive and rebellious. The problem of the world is that majority is in the first category!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Two, People, Firsts

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• God leads His people whether they are obedient or rebellious, but His leading is far more pleasant when they obey.

  Max Anders

  People, Pleasant, Obedient

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• The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty

  Francois Guizot

  Liberty, Revolution, Spirit

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• I've been so mistreated by male authority in my life that I had a terrible time in my marriage trying to be a submissive wife. I wanted to rule the roost in everything. And it wasn't even really that I was rebellious; I was afraid of being hurt. And I think that a lot of people that choose these alternative lifestyles, I think it's because they've been hurt somewhere along the line very badly.

  Joyce Meyer

  Hurt, Thinking, People

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• You say, "Well, I am not going to be anyone's 'yes man.' If I see something wrong in a person, I'm going to warn others about it." Fine. But beware that what you are calling "courage to speak out" is not more truly a deception masking a rebellious, dishonouring attitude.

  Francis Frangipane

  Attitude, Men, Speaks Out

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• It's kind of rebellious to be yourself.

  Kate Moss

  Being Yourself, Kind

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