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• Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.

  Alice Cooper

  Christian, Drinking, Beer

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• Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to the point of ostracism; to define oneself, and by extension one's generation, as new, novel, ungovernable.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Generations, Ostracism

  Joyce Carol Oates (1999). “Where I've Been, and where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose”, Plume Books

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• I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we've been evolving on this planet.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Thinking, Years, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

  Anais Nin

  Political, Gone, Serious

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• Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

  Khalil Gibran

  Truth, Spring, Uprising

  "The Vision". Book by Kahlil Gibran, October 1, 1994.

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• Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst.

  Langdon Brown Gilkey

  Church, Indifference, Cynicism

  Langdon Gilkey, Langdon Brown Gilkey (1985). “Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock”, p.11, University of Virginia Press

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• The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

  Benjamin Spock

  Teamwork, May, Quiet

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• Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

  Herbert Gold

  Together, Conformity, Inevitable

  Herbert Gold (1994). “Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool”, Touchstone Books

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• Some of your children's rebellion against your spiritual lifestyle might be a necessary step in their finding an authentic relationship with God. But beware: If they find it, it might look quite different from what you've always thought it should be.

  Tim Kimmel

  Spiritual, Children, Might

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• Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

  Albert Camus

  Reality, Our World, Uprising

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.247, Vintage

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• A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

  George Orwell

  Dirty, Naughty, Nasty

  Horizon Sept. 1941 "The Art of Donald McGill"

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• If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!

  George Whitefield

  Evil, Damnation, Action

  George Whitefield (1904). “Selected Sermons of George Whitefield: With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A.R. Buckland ...”, p.883, CCEL

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• God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Years, Second Amendment, Twenties

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.318

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• Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.

  Paul Carus

  Self, Expression, Spirit

  Paul Carus (2013). “History of the Devil”, p.449, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The only justification of rebellion is success.

  Thomas Reed

  Justification

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• Sin is the insurrection and rebellion of the heart against God; it turns from Him, and turns against Him; it takes up arms against God.

  Richard Alleine

  Heart, Arms, Sin

  Richard Alleine (1836). “Heaven opened; or, A brief and plain discovery of the riches of God's covenant of grace”, p.190

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• The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Hate, Heart, Men

  Charles Grandison Finney (1837). “Lectures to Professing Christians”, p.10

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• Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

  George Henry Lewes

  Uprising, Independence, Originality

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

  Aristotle

  Vices, Lines, Riches

  Aristotle (2015). “Politics”, p.164, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Our enmity toward God takes on many labels, such as rebellion, hard-heartedness, stiff-neckedness, unrepentant, puffed up, easily offended, and sign seekers. The proud wish God would agree with them. They aren't interested in changing their opinions to agree with God's.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Offended You, Wish, Proud

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• I was the angriest little person imaginable when I was younger. I woke up with a frown every morning. I barely talked, wore black all the time and had some serious teenage rebellion years

  Holly Marie Combs

  Morning, Teenage, Years

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• Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Pride, Political, Enemy

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.312, Broadview Press

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• There never was yet a people who must not have somebody or something to represent the dignity of the state, the majesty of the people, call it what you will - a doge, an avoyer, an archon, a president, a consul, a syndic; this becomes at once an object of ambition and dispute, and, in time, of division, faction, sedition, and rebellion.

  John Adams

  Ambition, People, President

  John Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.583

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• In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

  Albert Camus

  Unity, Demand, Construction

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.255, Vintage

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• Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.

  William Shakespeare

  Land, Another Day, Revolution

  William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.420

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