Rebel Quotes - Page 21

• I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.

  Ellar Coltrane

  School, Kids, Thinking

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• The Death Star is just full of British actors opening doors and going,Oh... I... oh... What is it Lieutenant Sebastian? It's just the Rebels, sir... they're here. My God, man! Do they want tea? No, I think they're after something a bit more than that, sir. I don't know what it is, but they've brought a flag. Damn, that's dash cunning of them.

  Eddie Izzard

  Stars, Men, Thinking

  "Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Past, Voice

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.147, University of Chicago Press

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• Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.

  Martin Luther

  Hurtful, Doe, Firsts

  Martin Luther, Jene M. Porter (1974). “Luther: Selected Political Writings”, Philadelphia : Fortress Press

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• To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace.

  Martin Luther

  Comfort, Calling, World

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• It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel and gang leaders, and even state governments, is that there is no more complete end-to-end weapon system in the inventory of war machines than the child soldierMan has created the ultimate cheap, expendable, yet sophisticated human weapon at the expense of humanity's own future: its children.

  Roméo Dallaire

  Children, War, Reality

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• For me as a woman pride is not really sin, but rather something that I still have to learn. The male conception of the person who rebels against God by affirming himself, by acting proudly, arrogantly, and without constraints, is not a woman's concern. Rather, we women are in danger of not developing any pride, of never becoming independent, of constantly remaining within too narrow boundaries.

  Dorothee Solle

  Independent, Pride, Acting

  Dorothee Sölle (1990). “Thinking about God: an introduction to theology”, Trinity Pr Intl

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• What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Doe, Refusal

  "Yes, and: Simulacra by Airea D. Matthews" by Julie Marie Wade, therumpus.net. December 1, 2017.

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• Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.

  Samuel Adams

  Kings, Men, Law

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• I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Heart, Eye, Cities

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• I don't know about torture. I have educated myself on many things but on torture I have not known the boundary between what is torture and what isn't torture. I know the NRA tie these people (rebels, etc.) when they catch them. They tie their hands backwards. I am now being told that is torture. It is the traditional method.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Ties, Hands, People

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• The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Generations, Public School

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• If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

  Ian MacKaye

  Dull, Want, Blades

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• I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Levels, Antisocial

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• What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.

  Hugo Chavez

  Hurt, Poverty, Hurt Me

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• The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

  Erich Auerbach

  Stories, Favors, May

  Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said (2013). “Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature”, p.15, Princeton University Press

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• Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner...Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values.

  Saddam Hussein

  Revenge, Son, Holy Places

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• I've been labelled many times - a criminal, an anarchist, a rebel, sometimes human garbage, but never a philosopher, which is a pity because that's what I am. I chose a life apart from the common flow, not only because the common flow makes me sick but because I question the logic of the flow, and not only that - I don't know if the flow exists! Why should I chain myself to the wheel when the wheel itself might be a construct, an invention, a common dream to enslave us?

  Steve Toltz

  Dream, Sick, Criminals

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• To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Struggle, Flower, Writing

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• It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Transition, Chaos, Painful

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn”, p.378, Macmillan

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• We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.

  Les Aspin

  Mean, Water, Sanctuary

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• We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

  Will Durant

  Night, Government, Hands

  Will Durant (1929). “The Mansions of Philosophy: A Survey of Human Life and Destiny”, Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City Publishing Company

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• It's never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale. We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around. When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels. We don't want to EAT hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to BE hot fudge sundaes. We want to come home to ourselves.

  Geneen Roth

  Inspiring, Home, Journey

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from May 12, 2014

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• Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.

  Paul Vixie

  Path, Conformity, Conformist

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• In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Order, Mind

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

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