Rebellious Quotes - Page 9

• Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Taken, Dull, Today

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Lying, Differences

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• I was very rebellious.

  Katey Sagal

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• If there's anything I think that you've seen about me, it's that I'm the rebellious girl.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Girl, Thinking, Ifs

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• I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.

  Frances O'Connor

  Somewhere Else, Parent, Older Sister

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

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• As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom.

  Paulo Freire

  Children, Self, Discipline

  Paulo Freire (2005). “Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach”

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• I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not.

  Tom Sizemore

  Thinking, People

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• You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.

  Criss Jami

  Mom, Mother, Knuckleheads

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.119, Criss Jami

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• I'm not rebellious, but I am very strong-willed. I know what I believe in, and I know what I think is right.

  Alli Simpson

  Strong, Believe, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Alli Simpson from Sep 25, 2012

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• Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so ready for our rebellious phase we can't help but feel it's safe, contained. It will turn out all right, despite the risk, snug in the shell of rebellion narrative. Rebellion narrative, does that make sense? It was appropriate to do, so we did it.

  Daniel Handler

  Sex, People, Risk

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• Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.

  Joseph Addison

  Husband, Night, Men

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator”, p.48

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• Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites stuck to them. You are too intent upon your chewing and gathering to listen to me, but I tell you that despite my warm feelings I really do not like you, and I cannot feel sorry for you in any way because there are too many of you and you are not cute at all. You eat too much of my forests; you are a rebellious tribe, and I will destroy you; I will poison your nests with sweet-smelling traps.

  William T. Vollmann

  Cute, Sweet, Sorry

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• My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Character, Passionate Desire, Justice

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

  John Mortimer

  Tragedy, Theatre, Farce

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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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• He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Mind, World

  1900 The Voice of the People, bk.2, ch.4.

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• Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.

  Amy Sherman-Palladino

  Girl, Silly, Mind

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• A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Political, Doctrine, World

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2003). “A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century”, p.162, Routledge

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• Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

  Mariano Azuela

  Revolution, Bandits, Thinker

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• Look at the posture of prayer. It is the posture of slavery, of bowing before your master. We are a proudly rebellious country. We kicked out the master. Now here comes the government telling us to humbly bow again.

  Dan Barker

  Country, Prayer, Government

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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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• In the final analysis our greatest problem with holiness is not that our concepts of holiness are feeble, but that our hearts are rebellious. We are selfish , that's our problem. And the fact that we often won't admit our selfishness shows how deep the pride goes.

  Floyd McClung

  Selfish, Heart, Pride

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• A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.

  Susan Howe

  Return, Forget, Process

  Susan Howe (2007). “My Emily Dickinson”, p.98, New Directions Publishing

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• How true it is that, sooner or later, the' most rebellious must bow beneath the yoke of misfortune!

  Madame de Stael

  Yoke, Bows, Sooner Or Later

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• Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Dream, Teenager, Loss

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.208, David C Cook

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