quotes about Rebellion
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Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
-- Albert Camus -
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.
-- Albert Camus -
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Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.
-- Albert Camus -
The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .
-- Albert Camus -
In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
-- Albert Camus -
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It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.
-- Amy Tan -
Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.
-- B. W. PoweSource : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.
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Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.
-- Bobbie Ann Mason -
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A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.
-- Charles Inglis -
Revelation without a relationship produces rebellion.
-- Chris Oyakhilome -
Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.
-- Curt FloodSource : Curt Flood, Richard Carter (1971). “The way it is”, Trident Press (WA)
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Rebellion is necessary for development of character.
-- Cynthia Voigt -
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For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.
-- Donatella Versace -
my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.
-- Dorothy Gilman -
Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.
-- Dudley Nichols -
Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.
-- Emile Zola -
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The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.
-- Francis SchaefferSource : Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of spirituality”
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
-- Frederick DouglassSource : Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.594, Chicago Review Press
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
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The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.
-- George Eliot -
... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.
-- George Eliot -
My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.
-- George Leigh Mallory -
Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.
-- Georges BatailleSource : Georges Bataille (2004). “The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge”, p.185, U of Minnesota Press
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Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.
-- Herbert GoldSource : Herbert Gold (1994). “Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool”, Touchstone Books
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The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
-- Huey Newton -
The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
-- Iris Chang -
It is blasphemous rebellion against God thatmarks the Antichrist as the final and logical expression of humanism.
-- J. Vernon McGee -
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Well, these tattoos aren't really rebellion. These tattoos are all tattoos I've had since I have been a pastor.
-- Jay Bakker -
His puppyhood was a period of foolish rebellion. He was always worsted, but he fought back because it was his nature to fight back. And he was unconquerable.
-- Jay London -
The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
-- Jeanette Winterson -
Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.
-- Johann Baptist Metz -
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When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.
-- John Hagee -
Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.
-- Jose Rizal -
Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.
-- Josh McDowell -
When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould -
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Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God
-- Kevin DeYoungSource : Albert Mohler, Mark Dever, John MacArthur, David Platt, John Piper (2016). “Unashamed of the Gospel”, p.102, B&H Publishing Group
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it is amazing how all our paths of rebellion tend to lead us straight back home.
-- Kristin Hunter -
Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst.
-- Langdon Brown GilkeySource : Langdon Gilkey, Langdon Brown Gilkey (1985). “Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock”, p.11, University of Virginia Press
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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.
-- Louis Kronenberger -
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Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!
-- Marianne FaithfullSource : "Fictional character: Rebecca". "The Girl on a Motorcycle", www.imdb.com. September 12, 1968.
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To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.
-- Marilyn Manson -
I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl ...
-- Marina TsvetaevaSource : Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.159, Carcanet
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Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.
-- Mark MothersbaughSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.
-- Norman ThomasSource : Norman Thomas (1961). “Great Dissenters”
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The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
-- Oscar Wilde -
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-- Patricia Schroeder -
In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left
-- Peter Kreeft -
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I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.
-- Phil Donahue -
There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.
-- Philip Sidney -
No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.
-- Samuel Eliot MorisonSource : Samuel Eliot Morison (1965). “the Oxford History of the American People \”
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When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.
-- Simon Bolivar -
He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.
-- Solange Knowles -
Successful rebellions always begin in secret.
-- Stephen King -
Don't want that, do they?†She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!
-- Suzanne Collins -
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It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
-- T. S. Eliot -
Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.
-- Thomas Jefferson -
Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.
-- Tom Morello -
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It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace".
-- Veronica Roth -
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
-- Victor Hugo -
My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.
-- Walt Whitman -
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I like to be challenged. I like rebellion. It adds some richness and some interest to life.
-- Albert SerraSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. It was a force for siding with the oppressed and a rebellion against hierarchical, ancient societies. Now it's institutionalized and all the life has been sucked out of it.
-- Ezra FurmanSource : "Playground for the Perplexed". Interview with J.L. Sirisuk, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 5, 2015.
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Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.
-- Margaret Lee Runbeck -
The believer who feels the agony caused by rebellion will grow to become the best intercessor.
-- Max Anders -
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We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.
-- Michael S. Heiser -
For a thousand years, Vietnam was a part of China. And that thousand years is punctuated throughout by rebellions from Vietnam.
-- Michael W. Michalak -
Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s.
-- Pedro Winter -
I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.
-- Bobbie Ann Mason -
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A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.
-- Ida TarbellSource : Ida M. Tarbell (2015). “All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography”, p.101, Ravenio Books
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The only justification of rebellion is success.
-- Thomas Reed