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• Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Needs, Laying Down

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.59, HarperCollins UK

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• One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Kings, Insanity, Usurpers

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention, November 13, 1792.

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• I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Believe In Yourself, Opposites, Needs

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

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• The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

  William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe

  Army, Night, Done

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• This week, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized control of the Yemeni government, heretofore pro-American. In September, they overran Sanaa, the capital. On Tuesday, they seized the presidential palace. On Thursday, they forced the president to resign.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Government, Tuesday, Presidential

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• One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.

  Confucius

  Men, Law, Long

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.

  Jim Elliot

  Temptation, Way, Accepting

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• But while Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible. There is no word strong enough for it. I am pledged as a rebel, an unconvertible rebel, to the one thing - a free and independent Republic.

  Constance Markievicz

  Strong, Independent, Republic

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• Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Love, Heart, Winter

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• Just listening to Pac, ain't gon' make it stop
  A rebel in your thoughts, ain't gon' make it halt
  If you don't become an actor, you'll never be a factor

  Lupe Fiasco

  Listening, Actors, Pacs

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• An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels; for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression. The avant-garde man is the opponent of an existing system.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Men, Expression, Cities

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• It is strange how long we rebel against a platitude until suddenly in a different lingo it looms up again as the only verity.

  Ruth Benedict

  Long, Different, Strange

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.123, Transaction Publishers

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• The [Libyan] rebels this week kind of hinted to the United States that they could use a little help. Right. Like, America would just blunder around the Middle East killing people without all the facts. That doesn't sound like the America I know.

  Bill Maher

  America, People, Sound

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• God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Purpose, Redemption

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• He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Uprising, Enemy, Tribes

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• Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.

  Al Pacino

  Powerful, Causes, Grew Up

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Reading [poetry], you know, is rather like opening the door to a horde of rebels who swarm out attacking one in twenty places at once - hit, roused, scraped, bared, swung through the air, so that life seems to flash by; then again blinded, knocked on the head - all of which are agreeable sensations for a reader (since nothing is more dismal than to open the door and get no response).

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, Air, Doors

  Virginia Woolf (2017). “The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929 - 1932”, p.298, Random House

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• The Christian is a holy rebel loose in the world with access to the throne of God.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Thrones, World

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• I love Rebel Rebel in Manhattan's West Village for vinyl, but record stores are hard to come by these days. I almost don't even use iTunes. I mostly use music subscription services. But I'll go into Rebel Rebel once a month or so and buy everything I love on vinyl.

  Jason Sellards

  Love, Age, Use

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• What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men, who, having the enjoyment of power, do not discharge the duties of power; they are the men who, having the power to redress wrongs, refuse to listen to the petitioners that are sent to them; they are the men who, when they are asked for a loaf, give a stone.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Men, Tyrants, Giving

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• I am hopelessly divided between the dark and the good, the rebel and the saint, the sex maniac and the monk, the poet and the priest, the demagogue and the populist. Pen to paper, I put it all down - I'm out on a limb here, so watch my back.

  Billy Idol

  Sex, Heart, Dark

  "Billy Idol: The Story of My Drug-Fueled Recording of 'Dancing with Myself'" by Billy Idol, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2014.

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• Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him for? His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that it's done above and beyond earning a living and deals with what people really care passionately about. Remember, no one gets paid to rebel. All revolutions start with volunteers.

  Susan J. Ellis

  Helping Others, People, Volunteer

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• I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Alive, Knows, Inevitability

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• God's wrath is not an implacable, blind rage. However emotional it may be, it is an entirely reasonable and willed response to offenses against his holiness. But his love . . . wells up amidst his perfections and is not generated by the loveliness of the loved. Thus there is nothing intrinsically impossible about wrath and love being directed toward the same individual or people at the same time. God in his perfections must be wrathful against his rebel image-bearers, for they have offended him; God in his perfections must be loving toward his rebel image-bearers, for he is that kind of God

  D. A. Carson

  Love Is, Emotional, Wrath

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• I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.

  Maya Beiser

  Kids, Facts, Bigs

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