Rebellion Quotes - Page 17

• . . . this oligarchy of sex, which makes fathers, brothers, husbands and sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household - which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects, carries dissension, discord, and rebellion into every house of the nation.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Daughter, Mother, Brother

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• The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.

  Joss Whedon

  Expression, Joy

  Joss Whedon's acceptance speech for "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" at the Creative Art Emmys, www.youtube.com. September 2009.

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• if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Demon, Behavior, Transcendental

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.159, Penguin

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• The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to rediscover taste.

  Carlo Petrini

  Food, Simple, Quests

  Carlo Petrini (2007). “Slow Food Nation: Why Our Food Should be Good, Clean, and Fair”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."

  Benjamin Franklin

  4th Of July, Sea, Tyrants

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• The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

  George Washington

  Inspiration, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Farewell Address, Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Sept. 1796

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• I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

  David Byrne

  Reality, Uprising, Littles

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• Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

  Joan Jett

  People, Rebel, Want

  "A Minute With: Joan Jett on life as a 'Runaway'". Interview with Bob Tourtellotte, www.reuters.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

  Eminem

  Nice, Rap, Home

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• Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

  Francis Bacon

  Worst, Belly

  Francis Bacon (2014). “The Essays of Francis Bacon”, p.44, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

  Charles Inglis

  War, Hippie, Horror

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• Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

  Victor Hugo

  Funny, Wisdom, Witty

  Victor Hugo (2004). “Notre-Dame de Paris”, p.144, Penguin UK

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• I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

  Mark Hoppus

  Kids, Thinking, Rocks

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• Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

  Jim Hightower

  Country, Government, Media

  "Populism Is Not A Style" by Jim Hightower, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 14, 2009.

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• What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it’s down to us.

  Jim Hightower

  Mother, Kings, People

  "The Lowdown from Hightower" by Michael Winship, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 30, 2010.

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• That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.

  Lester Bangs

  Teenager, Thinking, Uprising

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

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• The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Reality, Uprising, Dynamics

  "The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental". Book by Rebecca Wanzo, 2009.

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• I've never had a teenage rebellion, I'm not that type of person. I always work out my problems in a conscientious way.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Teenage, Work Out, Way

  "'I'm in a good place now'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2007.

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• 'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.

  James Dobson

  Children, War, Book

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• Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

  John Cusack

  Thinking, People, Acting

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• The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Events, Littles, Revolution

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.115

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• The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Uprising, Christian Inspirational, Literature

  Edwin Louis Cole (1998). “Absolute Answers to Prodigal Problems”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Rights, Cities, Black

  Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

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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, Rebel

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

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• In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

  Franz Kafka

  Funny, Fighting, Literature

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