Rebel Quotes

• Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

  Indira Gandhi

  Pioneers, Designer, Non Conformist

  Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti (1975). “The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti”

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• I would rather be a rebel than a slave.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Independent Women, Slavery, Suffragists

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• We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.

  Albert Camus

  Dream, Fighting, World

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• Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

  Walter Isaacson

  Change, Success, Meaningful

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.

  Clint Eastwood

  Hate, Lying, Opposites

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• Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

  David Ogilvy

  Business, Believe, Talent

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• It's not rebels that make trouble, but trouble that makes rebels.

  Ruth Messinger

  Trouble

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• It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

  H. L. Mencken

  Uprising, Leader, Causes

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• I'm kind of in between a goody-goody and a rebel. I'm not bad, but I'm not good either. I'm a little crazy.

  Michelle Wie

  Crazy, Littles, Kind

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• I rebel; therefore I exist.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Existentialism

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• If you really wanna be a rebel, read your bible.

  LeCrae

  Ifs

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• The world has known only very few rebels. But now is the time: if humanity proves incapable of producing a large number of rebels, a rebellious spirit, then our days on the earth are numbered. We have to change our consciousness, create more meditative energy in the world, create more lovingness.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Numbers, Humanity

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• Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style.

  Kristine Kathryn Rusch

  Creativity, Style, Experts

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• To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

  Kate Millett

  Way, Spinning, Wheels

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• There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

  Clint Eastwood

  Lying, Soul, My Soul

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• I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

  Angelina Jolie

  Causes, Reckless, Rebels Without A Cause

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• In order to exist, man must rebel.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Order, Challenges

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.22, Vintage

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• Every woman is a rebel.

  Oscar Wilde

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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• When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

  Mae West

  Life, Tattoo, Sexy

  I'm No Angel (motion picture) (1933)

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• It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Artist, Stupidity, World

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• I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

  Maya Beiser

  Done, Wanted, My Own

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• What is a rebel? A man who says no.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Conformity, Refusal

  L'Homme Revolte (The Rebel) pt. 1 (1951)

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• I was not cut out to be a rebel.

  Gene Tierney

  Cutting

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

  Criss Jami

  Sake

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.64, Criss Jami

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• Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

  Niels Bohr

  Spiritual, Radical, Aim

  "The World of the Atom". Book by Henry Abraham Boorse and Lloyd Motz, January 21, 1966.

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