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• The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems',' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

  Erich Fromm

  Future, Past, Men

  "The Sane Society". Book by Erich Fromm, p. 102, 1955.

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• Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.

  Pierre Corneille

  Awareness, Masters, Absolute Power

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• To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Leadership, Freedom, Business

  "Poems of Problems" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Protest", (pp. 154 - 155), 1914.

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• It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.

  Dennis Hopper

  Video, Easy Rider, Stores

  "Fictional character: Huey Walker". "Flashback", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• They stick you with those names, those labels -- ‘rebel’ or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.

  Johnny Depp

  Motivational, Price Tag, Names

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• I do things in my own way, but I've never felt any need to rebel.

  Emma Watson

  Needs, Way, My Own

  "'Harry Potter' star Emma Watson says she 'never felt any need to rebel'" by Terri Schwartz, www.mtv.com. November 3, 2010.

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• The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

  Quentin Crisp

  Teenage, Parent, Copying

  The Naked Civil Servant ch. 19 (1968)

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• My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Giving, Mind, Exaltation

  Sherlock Holmes, responding to Doctor Watson's remonstrations about his cocaine use, in The Sign of Four (1890). So, cryptology replaces drug abuse!

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• We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism - something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

  Richard Dawkins

  Selfish, Machines, World

  "The Selfish Gene". Book by Richard Dawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1976.

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• True lovers are as rare as true rebels.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Lovers, True Lovers

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• I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Thrones, Stories, Fool

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue.

  Etty Hillesum

  Long, Evil, Doe

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.308, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

  Henry Steele Commager

  War, Past, Silence

  "Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent". Book by Henry Steele Commager, 1954.

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• I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.

  Tupac Shakur

  People, Want, Grain

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• Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Growing Up, School, Thinking

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• Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

  Sean Penn

  Maturity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

  George Bernard Shaw

  Smart, Shoes, Care

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• I do things in my own way, but I've never felt any need to rebel. To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

  Emma Watson

  Jobs, Needs, World

  FaceBook post by Emma Watson from Jul 30, 2012

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• We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels.

  Marina Abramovic

  Destroying, Planets

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I decided when I was 19 that I didn't like all these stereotypes that I was supposed to fit into. I wasn't comfortable and they made me very unhappy. So I tried and I spent a miserable summer, and then I went back to school and said, 'I'm going to do my own thing because I think I have a thing to do. I'm not going to live in anybody else's image because I don't like that.' I felt much better. I didn't do it to rebel against anybody or anything.

  Iris Apfel

  Summer, School, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.

  Elvis Presley

  Thinking, People, Natural Instinct

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• A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Government, Medicine

  Letter to James Madison, 30 Jan. 1787

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• Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

  H. G. Wells

  Nature, Children, Animal

  H.G. Wells (2009). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.238, Broadview Press

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• Upon the profound discontent of the young in every country do I set my faith. I beg you, the young, to be discontented. I pray that you may rebel against what is wrong, not with feeble negative complaining but with strong positive assertion of what is right for all humanity.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country, Strong, Profound

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• How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

  Nicolas Cage

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