Rebellious Quotes - Page 7

• The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

  Noah Levine

  Ignorance, Trying, Way

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• In my own way, I was a rebellious kid.

  Tom Morello

  Kids, Way, My Own

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• Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

  Georges Bizet

  Love Is, Bird, Vain

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• Punk Funk means to be one with yourself. To be rebellious, aggressive, able to do and say what you feel at all times, without inflicting mental or spiritual pain.

  Rick James

  Spiritual, Pain, Mean

  FaceBook post by Rick James from Jan 14, 2014

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• Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

  Robert McKee

  Artist, Break, Form

  Robert McKee (2010). “Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Successful, Men, Doors

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Reality, Law

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

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• My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

  Jo Brand

  Dad, Teenager, Men

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• Kids should be naughty and go through that rebellious phase I didn't have.

  Naomie Harris

  Kids, Naughty, Phases

  "Naomie that girl". Interview with Dee O'Connell, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2002.

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• I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

  Amber Heard

  Standards Set, Gone, Amber

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• Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

  Mariano Azuela

  Revolution, Bandits, Thinker

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• It's odd. Though I've spent years working with and creating images, I feel most comfortable expressing myself through writing. I'd been in denial about this for many years. At school I was highly lauded as having the potential to write one day, but being a typically rebellious and misguided teenager I opted to study art. Ironically language has pervaded all the work I have done - from my first forays into an art practice many years ago to my work with typography and book design.

  Michael Salu

  Art, Teenager, Book

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they tell us not of eternal peace alone, of that great peace of "indifferent" nature: they tell us, too, of eternal reconciliation and of life without end.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Flower, Eye, Heart

  Ivan Turgenev (2013). “Delphi Works of Ivan Turgenev (Illustrated)”, p.639, Delphi Classics

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• Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

  John Mortimer

  Tragedy, Theatre, Farce

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• It is easier to run a revolution than a government.

  Ferdinand Marcos

  Running, Government, Politics

  1977 In Time, 6 Jun.

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• Peace should be a hallmark of the godly person, first because it is a Godlike trait: God is called the God of peace several times in the New Testament. He took the initiative to establish peace with rebellious men, and He is the author of both personal peace as well as peace among men. Peace should be part of our character also because God has promised us His peace, because He has commanded us to let peace rule in our lives and relationships, and because peace is a fruit of the Spirit and therefore an evidence of His working in our lives.

  Jerry Bridges

  Character, Godly, Men

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• If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, Creativity, Voice

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 28, 2015

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• To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY, or do-it-yourself.  The equation was simple:  If punk was rebellious and DIY was rebellious, then doing it yourself was punk.  'Punk was about more than just starting a band,' former Minutemen bassist Mike Watt once said, 'it was about starting a label, it was about touring, it was about taking control.  It was like songwriting; you just do it.  You want a record, you pay the pressing plant.  That's what it was all about.'

  Michael Azerrad

  Simple, Ethos, Indie Rock

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• If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

  Leon Trotsky

  Art, Bridges, Hands

  Leon Trotsky (1925). “Literature and Revolution”, p.181, Haymarket Books

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• I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beauty, Art, Blessed

  The Doctor's Dilemma (1911) act 4

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• We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Church, Why Not

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• In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dream, Years, Giving

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.

  Davy Jones

  Mean, Hair, Long

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• The deviant that does not observe the trivial uses of the language is a poet, a deviant who violates the banal customs of society is a criminal.

  William C. Brown

  Criminals, Doe, Use

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• The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

  Jerry Rubin

  Sex, Revolution, Backseat

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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