Rebellion Quotes - Page 10

• Every time you read something about Rolling Stones it always mentions their age and how long can they go on? I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and roll, I guess because it originally started out to be a teenage rebellion.

  Kate Pierson

  Teenage, Thinking, Rocks

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• Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.

  Khushwant Singh

  Kings, Sleep, Night

  Khushwant Singh (1990). “Delhi”

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• Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

  Emma Goldman

  Art, Reality, Desire

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• Paris, hours in the café, a certain spirit of rebellion, one side a bit too stubborn, the sea, the true, in Bretagne, the walking in Provence, the taste, the passion for literature, the libraries, the beautiful editions, remaking the world in a set of hours around a table and a bottle of wine. Talking without really saying nothing, just for the pleasure of talking. The museums, the theatres, the elegance, the delicacy, the heritage of the Illustration, a humanistic philosophy. The balance we got between a nordic rigor and a latin savoir-vivre, the insolence and the freedom.

  Clemence Poesy

  Beautiful, Latin, Philosophy

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• A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. In order to flourish, the tree of Liberty needs the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Blood, Order, Tyrants

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• Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Government, Voice, People

  Mahatma Gandhi (1971). “Collected Works”

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• I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sick, World, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Rebellion, just to be clear, can mean holding onto some of your own integrity, of not playing into the idea of sensationalism. We all have our moments, and that's your guys' job - to take those moments and make them turgid, gaseous, make them big, and it's bigger than the person is. When you start believing your own press, that's when it gets really sad.

  Josh Brolin

  Jobs, Integrity, Believe

  Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 15, 2010.

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• We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Might, Election

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.334, Fordham Univ Press

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• I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Arise, Short Lived

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.

  Norman Thomas

  Hero, Levels, Virtue

  Norman Thomas (1961). “Great Dissenters”

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• Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Tyrants, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.136, Penguin

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• Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

  Leon Trotsky

  Art, Law, Revolutionary

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• There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Tyrants, Two, Demand

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• Stiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon this evil nation for its sodomite sins!

  Fred Phelps

  America, Evil, Vengeance

  "9/11: God's Wrath Revealed". WBC Video News, September 8, 2006.

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• Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

  Wendell Phillips

  Animal, Worry, Forever

  Wendell Phillips (1884). “Daniel O'Connell, the Irish Patriot”

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• There being in the make of an English mind a certain gloom and eagerness, which carries to the sad extreme; religion to fanaticism; free-thinking to atheism; liberty to rebellion.

  George Berkeley

  Sad, Thinking, Mind

  George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser (1732). “The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Formerly Bishop of Cloyne: Philosophical works, 1732-33: Alciphron. The theory of vision”, p.142

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• Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath-but there will always be love in God. Where God in His holiness confronts His image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, or God is not the jealous God He claims to be, and His holiness is impugned. The price of diluting God's wrath is diminishing God's holiness.

  D. A. Carson

  Jealous, Love Is, Wrath

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• There is a calamitous difference between a people who have been immersed in paganism for centuries and a post-Christian society. While the culture of the latter may carry a deep tradition influenced by Christian values, its posture of rebellion will give it a direction that is more explicitly and consciously anti-Christian.

  Edmund Clowney

  Christian, Religious, Differences

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• There is something that governments care for more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy.... Those of you who can break windows--break them. Those of you who can still further attack the secret idol of property, so as to make the Government realize that property is as greatly endangered by women's suffrage as it was by the Chartists of old--do so. And my last word is to the Government: I incite this meeting to rebellion!

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Government, Idols, Secret

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• I can't stand rap....people who can't sing do rap....you can sing rebellion as well as talk it....Hitler would have been in a rap band.

  John Entwistle

  Rap, People, Band

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

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• When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  People, History, Unconventional

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible.

  Che Guevara

  Military, Ungrateful, Spirit

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• It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry them at all would be on trial. Until you had definitely experienced all the human situations with them, you would have no means of knowing how, in any given situation, they would behave. They might conform about evening-dress, and throw plates between courses; they might be charming to your friends, and ask the waiter to sit down and finish dinner with you. Or they might in all things, little and big, be irreproachable. The point is that you would never know.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Marriage, Mean, Knowing

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• One of Satan's greatest tools is pride: to cause a man or a woman to center so much attention on self that he or she becomes insensitive to his Creator or fellow beings. It is a cause for discontent, divorce, teenage rebellion, family indebtedness, and most other problems we face.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Teenage, Women, Divorce

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