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• Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me!

  Ellen Sussman

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes

  Colin Powell

  Organization, Clothes, Should

  "The Powell Principles". Book by Oren Harari, 2002.

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• I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. All the stock in trade I possess is a $10,000 debt, incurred by publishing my paper - The Revolution - four years ago, the sole object of which was to educate all women to do precisely as I have done, rebel against your man-made, unjust, unconstitutional forms of law, that tax, fine, imprison and hang women, while they deny them the right of representation in the government... And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God."

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Law, Dollars

  An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony on the charge of illegal voting at the Presidential election in Nov., 1872, and on the trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, the inspectors of elections by whom her vote was received, 1874.

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• I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes!

  Rebel Wilson

  Directors, Want, Do Whatever You Want

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• I was a bit of a rebel.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Bits

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• The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust of the human mind, the mind which makes out of the mass of meaningless data in the world an order and a form.

  Rollo May

  Data, Order, Giving

  Rollo May (1998). “Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence”, p.237, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Sheep, People

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• Were God to show grace to all of Adam's descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall into sin. But the great God in under no obligation to any of his creatures, least of all to those who are rebels against him.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Fall, Men, Race

  Arthur W. Pink (2002). “The Attribute to God”, p.78, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• I want a revamped feminism. Putting the vamp back means the lady must be a tramp. My generation of the Sixties rebels wanted to smash the bourgeois codes that had become authoritarian totems of the Fifties. The 'nice' girl with her soft, sanitized speech and decorous manners had to go. Thirty years later, we're still stuck with her - in the official spokesmen and the anointed heiresses of the feminist establishment.

  Camille Paglia

  Girl, Sex, Nice

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.9, Vintage

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• ... Rebel against the flesh and bone,
  The word of the blood, the wily skin,
  And the maggot no man can slay.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Men, Blood

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

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• Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

  Gloria Steinem

  Female, Doe, Accepted

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender”, p.182, Open Road Media

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• I've never really had any barrier to break I guess. I don't really have anything to rebel against. I'm quite lucky.

  Emma Watson

  Lucky, Break, Barriers

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• I really never break the rules. I'm not scared to say what I think or if I really disagree with something then I'll say it, but I'm not kind of like a born rebel.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking, Scared, Kind

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• I get slightly irritated by people who say they're natural rebels because it just means that they're going to be against whatever anybody does, which is almost like saying you might as well leave it as it is.

  Robert Wyatt

  Mean, People, Doe

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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• The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and disturbers of the ecclesiastical unity, especially obstinate heretics and heresiarchs, cannot be restrained by any other penalty from continuing to derange the ecclesiastical order and impelling others to all sorts of crime ... When the perversity of one or several is calculated to bring about the ruin of many of its children it is bound effectively to remove it, in such wise that if there be no other remedy for saving its people it can and must put these wicked men to death.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Wise, Children, Mean

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• Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for moving toward that vision and a capacity to rally and join with others in achieving it. If the anger that drives rebellion is not transformed into the hope that inspires movement communities, it will do more harm than good.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Moving, Community, Inspire

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• People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.

  Yuri Kochiyama

  Country, Fighting, Government

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• And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.

  T. S. Eliot

  Heart, Sea, Voice

  "Ash-Wednesday" l. 195 (1930)

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• Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?

  Sania Mirza

  Negativity, Students, Married

  "Successful People Are Targeted; I’m More Careful Now: Sania Mirza". Interview with Sharmistha Chaudhuri, www.hindustantimes.com. November 24, 2013.

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• We attacked a foreign people and treated them like rebels. As you know, it's all right to treat barbarians barbarically. It's the desire to be barbaric that makes governments call their enemies barbarians.

  Bertolt Brecht

  War, Government, People

  Bertolt Brecht (1998). “Collected Stories”, Arcade Pub

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• To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.

  Milan Kundera

  Women, Pride, Unbearable Lightness Of Being

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.

  George Orwell

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.118, Arcturus Publishing

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• Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Men, Giving, Freedom Of Speech

  Thurgood Marshall, Mark V. Tushnet (2001). “Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences”, p.11, Chicago Review Press

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• I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing.

  Leighton Meester

  Thinking, Guy

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• To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

  Henri Nouwen

  Hardship

  Henri Nouwen (2004). “Turn My Mourning into Dancing”, p.10, Thomas Nelson Inc

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