Rebellion Quotes - Page 7

• I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.

  Elvis Presley

  Thinking, People, Rebel

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• Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

  Albert Camus

  Strange, Form, Forms Of Love

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

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• Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But as it was predetermined and inevitable, it was long enough delayed. Now is the appropriate time to solve the greatest problem ever submitted to civilized man.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Heart, Patriotic, Men

  Thaddeus Stevens (1997). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens: January 1814-March 1865”, University of Pittsburgh Pre

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• If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it will be because men will gradually bring themselves to deal with political, as they now deal with scientific questions.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Self, Political

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2006). “Huxley's Autobiography and Essays”, p.234, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Heart, Men, Absolutes

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of spirituality”

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• I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.

  Bobbie Ann Mason

  Quiet, Corners, Knows

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• We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.

  Freeman Dyson

  Children, Trying, Today

  "The Scientist As Rebel". Book by Freeman Dyson, 2006.

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• Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s.

  Pedro Winter

  Generations, Culture, Punk

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.

  Mark Twain

  Loyalty, Men, Should Have

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• Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.

  Sidney Poitier

  Fashion, Form

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• With rebellion, awareness is born

  Albert Camus

  Awareness, Born

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.15, Vintage

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• The despairing soul is a rebel.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Soul, Rebel

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

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• Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Blood, Three

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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• it is amazing how all our paths of rebellion tend to lead us straight back home.

  Kristin Hunter

  Home, Back Home, Path

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• Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for their efforts. While they are alive, they may be called 'cantankerous,' 'crazy,' 'hysterical,' 'uppity,' or 'duped.' Dead, some of them become saints and heroes, the sterling characters of history. It's a matter of proportion. One angry rebel is crazy, three is a conspiracy, 50 is a movement.

  Carol Tavris

  Crazy, Anger, Hero

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• The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

  Hannah Arendt

  Foundation, Revolution, Ends

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “On Revolution”, p.119, Penguin

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• It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.

  E.W. Jackson

  Birth Defects, Principles, Sin

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• Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

  Curt Flood

  Baseball, Uprising, Relevant

  Curt Flood, Richard Carter (1971). “The way it is”, Trident Press (WA)

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• Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs.

  Keith Emerson

  Teacher, Children, Son

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• I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love. I have been inspired by heartbreak. I try to take everything that comes at me in life. There have been times in my life that I didn't handle things... right. But even though you stumble, you still kind of get through it.

  Nikki Sixx

  Children, Trying, Kind

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• Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.

  PJ Harvey

  Hard Work, Uprising, People

  Source: www.wfuv.org

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• Not only is true love rare and true rebellion rare, real love is itself a radical form of rebellion - engagement, thinking, and being - and therefore happens in the context of a larger project of justice, liberation, and critical thinking.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Real, Love Is, Thinking

  "True Lovers are as Rare as True Rebels". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. October 24, 2013.

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• If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

  Celia Green

  Race, Gains, Conformity

  Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton

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• The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, Justice, World

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.395, NYU Press

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• Well, these tattoos aren't really rebellion. These tattoos are all tattoos I've had since I have been a pastor.

  Jay Bakker

  Tattoo, Pastor, Wells

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