Rebel Quotes - Page 4

• To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Unjust, Free Will

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.52, Bantam

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• The connection economy rewards the leader, the initiator, and the rebel.

  Seth

  Leader, Connections, Rewards

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• All women are rebels.

  Oscar Wilde

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• I think one thing my mother always instilled in me was a sense of individuality. Being an only child, I never thought I had to rely on anyone. I was never afraid to be alone and I was never afraid to be my own person. So when all my friends were like, "Let's smoke weed," I was like, "I'm not doing it." It wasn't because I was trying to be a rebel or because I didn't like it or I was anti-drugs. I just didn't do it because I didn't want to do it, and if I didn't want to do it, I wasn't doing it. That was it.

  Noel Clarke

  Mother, Weed, Children

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A born terror, a rebel without a pause...
  Ain't never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?

  Shyheim

  Rap, Hip Hop, Santa

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• Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

  Edmund Burke

  Kings, Tyrants, Principles

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 116

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• It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

  Mao Zedong

  Reactionaries

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Reynolds Schram (1974). “Mao Tse-tung unrehearsed: talks and letters, 1956-71”, Penguin Books

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• Revolution is the only thing, the only power, that ever worked out freedom for any people. The powers that have ruled long and learned to love ruling, will never give up that prerogative until they must, till they see the certainty of overthrow and destruction if they do not. To plant-to revolutionize-these are the twin stars that have ruled our pathway. What have we then to dread in the word Revolution-we, the children of rebels!

  Wendell Phillips

  Stars, Children, Giving Up

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• Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.

  Thomas Brooks

  Saint, May, Reign

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.404

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• Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Arms, Slave, Oppressors

  "History and Utopia". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.

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• My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ideas, Two, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.7, Rajpal & Sons

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• Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Uprising, Doe

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.140

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• Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Men, Uprising

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one.

  Helen Mirren

  Girl, Good Girl, Would Be

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

  Jonathan Winters

  Discipline, Guy, Tough

  "Jonathan Winters Dead: 'Mork and Mindy' Star Dies At Age 87" by the Associated Press, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.

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• You never hear in the news, "200 killed today when Atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the Agnostic stronghold in the north."

  Doug Stanhope

  Atheist, Two, News

  "Doug Stanhope: Word of Mouth". Comedy, 2002.

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• You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

  Roger Daltrey

  School, Said, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Truth only seems old fashioned nowadays because we've grown so accustomed to deceit and manipulation. But Truth is eternal, so it can never be old or new. It never 'was' or 'will be.' It just 'is.' It always 'is.' Truth never grows old, and if you believe in it and try to live by it, you will always be, in some ways - the only ways that matter - the youngest, freshest, most energetic rebel on the block.

  Matt Walsh

  Block, Believe, Trying

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• Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.

  P. D. James

  Children, Brave, Secret

  P. D. James (2007). “Time to Be in Earnest”, p.20, Vintage

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• I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Presidential, Political, Storm

  Letter to James Madison, 30 Jan. 1787

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• Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.

  Aleister Crowley

  Philosophy, Independent, Greatness

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• I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.

  Anna Paquin

  Jobs, Mean, Kids

  "Anna Paquin's All-Day Energy Secrets". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.foxnews.com. June 03, 2012.

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• If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

  Kevin Spacey

  Birthday, Heart, Uprising

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• A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.

  Jim Morrison

  Hero, Facts, Conquer

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• In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction.

  Edward Everett

  Summer, Government, Cities

  Edward Everett (1868). “Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions”, p.628

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