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• Which path do you intend to take, Nell?' said the Constable, sounding very interested. 'Conformity or rebellion?' Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded - they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.

  Neal Stephenson

  Simple, People, Way

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.356, Spectra

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• I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fake, Criticism, Use

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.111, Random House

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• I won't go back and live in the sea again.

  Janet Morris

  Freedom, Power, Sea

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• I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas.

  Johnny Cash

  Mean, Ideas, People

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• He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.

  Donald Miller

  Daughter, Adventure, Parenting

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• Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.

  Josh McDowell

  E.V. Hill, Becky Pippert, Josh McDowell, Dawson McAllister, Barry St. Clair (1985). “Discipling the Young Person”

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• He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

  David Levithan

  Watches

  David Levithan (2008). “Are We There Yet?”, p.49, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)

  Aaron Allston

  Order, Interesting, Style

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• Many are whispering that Voldemort must be behind it. However, that is the point: They whisper. They daren’t confide in each other, not knowing whom to trust; they are scared to speak out, in case their suspicions are true and their families are targeted. Yes, Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion: Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

  J. K. Rowling

  Clever, Knowing, Speaks Out

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• You come before the judgment seat of God full of rebellion and mistakes. Because of his justice he cannot dismiss your sin, but because of his love he cannot dismiss you. So, in an act which stunned the heavens, he punished himself on the cross for your sins. God’s justice and love are equally honored. And you, God’s creation, are forgiven.

  Max Lucado

  Mistake, Justice, Heaven

  Billy Graham, J Countryman, Max Lucado (2006). “God's Sacrifice for You”, J Countryman Books

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• I am Trella the victorious leader of the Force of Sheep rebellion. Yes the name sounds ridiculous, and I still can't believe we named a major life changing event after livestock—or actually a stuffed animal—but it made sense at the time.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Life Changing, Believe, Animal

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Inside: Inside Out\Outside In”, p.296, Harlequin

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• It doesn't matter how many drugs I take, I'm not fulfilled. This isn't satisfying. There's a spiritual hunger going on. Everybody feels it. If you don't feel it now, you will. Trust me. You will... Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's the real rebellion.

  Alice Cooper

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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• The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.

  Albert Camus

  Adventure, Sea, Long

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.303, Vintage

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• It means we're on your side." That's what Bonnie said. I have people on my side? What side? Am I unwittingly the face of the hoped-for rebellion? Has the mockingjay on my pin become a symbol of resistance? If so, my side's not doing too well.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Your Side, People

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.150, Scholastic Inc.

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• Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

  Georges Bataille

  Stronger

  Georges Bataille (2004). “The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge”, p.185, U of Minnesota Press

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• Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!

  Suzanne Collins

  Country, Want, Whole

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.270, Scholastic

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• It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Alternatives, Attention, Tonight

  "The Other America". Speech Grosse Pointe High School, www.gphistorical.org. March 14, 1968.

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• The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Wise, Government, Cities

  Giacomo Casanova (1997). “History of My Life”, p.174, JHU Press

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• Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.

  Emile Zola

  Life, Surrender, Oneself

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• It's basically against the whole idea of what always made rock&roll music interesting to me. I thought it was an unassailable outlet for some pure and natural expressions of rebellion. It was one channel you could take without havin' to kiss ass, you know? And right now it just seems like they're on a big daisy chain, each kissin' each other's asses.

  Keith Richards

  Kissing, Rocks, Expression

  "Keith Richards: The Rolling Stone 20th Anniversary Interview". Interview with Kurt Loder, www.rollingstone.com. November 05, 1987.

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• Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended.

  Albert Camus

  Self Worth, Men, Greek

  "The Rebel". Book by Albert Camus, 1951.

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• Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

  Albert Camus

  Life And Death, Evil, Unity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.24, Vintage

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• The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

  Albert Camus

  Order, Form, Aspiration

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.23, Vintage

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• When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.

  Pete Wentz

  Made, Bigger, Said

  "This Charming Man". Interview with Shana Naomi Krochmal, August 2008.

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• There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Have Faith, Degrees

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.83, Criss Jami

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