Rebellion Quotes - Page 13

• That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Eight, Years

  Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, 22 Sept. 1862

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• With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of the war with Japan, in August of that year. A number of considerations, of course, entered into my decision to introduce the bill, growing from my own experience as a Rhodes scholar and the experiences our government had had with the first Word War debts, [Herbert] Hoover's efforts in establishing the Belgian-American Education Foundation after World War I, [and] the Boxer Rebellion indemnity.

  J. William Fulbright

  War, Educational, Government

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• In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Country, Father, Congratulations

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• The Cairo conferenceis about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health care. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.

  Anna Quindlen

  Home, Simple, Government

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• I refuse to be. In
  the madhouse of the inhuman
  I refuse to live.
  With the wolves of the market place
  I refuse to howl.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Nazism, Howl, Refuse

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.159, Carcanet

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• The youth rebellion [1968] is a worldwide phenomenon that has not been seen before in history. I do not believe they will calm down ad be ad execs at thirty as the Establishment would like us to believe.

  William S. Burroughs

  Believe, Calm, Youth

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• Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.

  Martin Luther

  Hurtful, Rebel, Doe

  Martin Luther, Jene M. Porter (1974). “Luther: Selected Political Writings”, Philadelphia : Fortress Press

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• Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Christian, Religious, Mean

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.245, Wildside Press LLC

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• Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.

  Albert Camus

  Mean, Historical, Doe

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.292, Vintage

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• A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passion, Self, Desire

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  People, Revolution, States

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2001). “Democracy in America”, p.129, Penguin

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• Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Inspirational, Civilization, Skins

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hands, Revolution, Republican

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• A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Government, People, Faults

  "Conversations with Goethe". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Peter Eckermann, 1836.

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• All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Revolution, Creation, Violent

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• In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.

  William Ralph Inge

  Revenge, Independence, Revolution

  William Ralph Inge (1920). “Outspoken Essays”

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• Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Elements, World, Revolution

  Charles Dudley Warner (1890). “Backlog Studies: Y Charles Dudley Warner”

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• The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Men, Weak Points

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1808). “Select Essays and Poems”, p.20

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• We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

  John F. Kennedy

  Powerful, Men, Self

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.548, Best Books on

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• As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Men, Revolution, Dimensions

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• My friend jewelry designer Courtney Crangi has been obsessed with Star Wars all her life and has seen the movies 150 times. When we first started talking about it, I was amazed that her knowledge made mine - which was even then pretty impressive - seem pathetic. And I think there are a couple of reasons for this. One is that the leader of the rebellion is Princess Leia. American theatergoers had never seen a princess like that. She's not a delicate flower, she's not passive, she's often the only one who has a clue.

  Cass Sunstein

  Couple, War, Flower

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I'm writing what I want to write. But it's almost an act of rebellion on my part. Because as a person, I've always wanted to be very likeable, and I think that's a horrible thing, particularly for women. You're always like, "Oh, I hope I didn't hurt anyone's feelings. I hope they like me!" And that's just so stupid.

  Tama Janowitz

  Hurt, Stupid, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like to be challenged. I like rebellion. It adds some richness and some interest to life.

  Albert Serra

  Add, Interest, Richness

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's fair to say that there's something retrograde about putting the leader of Star Wars rebellion in the position of "slave in a bikini." There's no question that that's a fair point. But, it is true, and it's kind of remarkable, that at this point in our history, the slave girl, for a time in the bikini, is the one who chokes her captor with her bare hands and using the chain with which he bound her. That's powerful stuff. That's more retributive feminism than I think teenaged boys had ever seen.

  Cass Sunstein

  Girl, Powerful, War

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• For me, on every project, I realize that I've boxed myself into a corner, or that the play necessitates some sort of theatrical convention that I realize I hate while I'm making it. So then the next play is always a rebellion. Or like, the thing I didn't even realize I was doing last time I will make sure I don't do this time. But there's always some other blind spot. And then that blind spot inspires the play that comes after.

  Annie Baker

  Hate, Play, Blind Spots

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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