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  Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

  Albert Camus

  Essence, Innocence, Nostalgia

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.105, Vintage

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• I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, Violent, Destroyed

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.147, Ravenio Books

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• What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Freedom, Gun

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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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 are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Government, Punishment

  Letter to James Madison, 30 Jan. 1787

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• A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

  James MacDonald

  Toxic, Believer, Unbelief

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• Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Creativity

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• We must only learn that independence cannot be gained by a rebellion against the constitution of the universe, or by inverting the laws of life and evolution, but by comprehending them and adapting ourselves to the world in which we live.

  Paul Carus

  Law, Independence, World

  Paul Carus (2008). “The History of the Devil: With 350 Illustrations”, p.473, Courier Corporation

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• Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.

  Marcelo H. del Pilar

  Peace, Mean, Uprising

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• Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Uprising, Poetry

  1919 Jurgen.

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• There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Government, Uprising, Enemy

  Speech at Royal Albert Hall, London, 17 Oct. 1912

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• If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

  Cherry Jones

  Heart, Leader, Injustice

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• Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotten.

  Vijay Prashad

  Memories, Struggle, Forgotten

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

  Albert Camus

  Unity, Kind

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.125, Vintage

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• The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, - you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, - I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Voice

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

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• General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, People, Democracy

  Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.106

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• I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Delight

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• A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, Government, Medicine

  Letter to James Madison, 30 Jan. 1787

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• What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes.

  Samuel Adams

  Kings, Struggle, Power

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• Life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself to rules, to refuse your own success, to refuse to repeat yourself, to see every day, every year, every idea as a true challenge - and then you are going to live your life on a tightrope.

  Philippe Petit

  Exercise, Years, Ideas

  "Man on Wire", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos who, despite the rebellion of Promethean man against Heaven from the period of Renaissance and its aftermath, is still the inner man of every man, the reality which no human being can deny wherever and whenever he lives, the imprint of a theomorphic nature which no historical change and transformation can erase completely from the face of that creature called man.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Reality, Men, Skulls

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr (1989). “Knowledge and the Sacred: Revisioning Academic Accountability”, p.162, SUNY Press

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  The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their children and grandchildren.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, May, Revolution

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• When any of us meet someone who rejects dominant norms and values, we feel a little less crazy for doing the same. Any act of rebellion or non-participation, even on a very small scale, is therefore a political act.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Crazy, Political, Littles

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• Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Air, Radicalism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.334

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• There's a lot of things that I think you got to deal with. Hillary Clinton had to put down a rebellion in her own party, then she's going to have to put down the [Donald] Trump rebellion and then try to govern.

  Van Jones

  Party, Thinking, Trying

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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