Rebellious Quotes - Page 11

• Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Taken, Dull, Today

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• This is the glory and miracle of grace, that God, through the Holy Spirit, is able to transform a stubborn, rebellious, and unbelieving will into a passionate, obedient, believing will without violating the integrity of the individual or diminishing the voluntary nature of one's decision to trust Christ for salvation.

  Sam Storms

  Integrity, Believe, Decision

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• The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Lying, Differences

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• The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming about. Punk was rebellious-and justified in that response-but it had very little to do with music, and so it created a highly-charged but frighteningly floundering atmosphere that I found very, very disheartening. Musical quality for me has always been an important part of rock'n'roll-and winning recognition for that has long been an uphill battle all the way. Punk seemed like rock'n'roll utterly without the music.

  Steve Winwood

  Country, Winning, Rocks

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• There are many sides to me to who I am and my personality. I think the only thing that is rebellious about me is that I don't really have a lot of fears, as far as film industry is concerned.

  Megan Fox

  Thinking, Who I Am, Personality

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• By the time I was 18, I had absorbed punk rock from America, Britain, and the West Coast. All of it was so dark and weird and different and cool and hot and sexy and rebellious. It was a fist-in-the-air kind of rebellion that I wasn't getting from the '70s mainstream.

  Michael Stipe

  Sexy, Dark, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they are), cannot comprehend why those ways should not be good enough for everybody; and what is more, spontaneity forms no part of the ideal of the majority of moral and social reformers, but is rather looked on with jealousy, as a troublesome and perhaps rebellious obstruction to the general acceptance of what these reformers, in their own judgment, think would be best for mankind.

  John Stuart Mill

  Acceptance, Thinking, Atheism

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

  Patti Davis

  Children, Long, Learners

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• I think the best analogy for where we are right now is that America is Elvis Presley -- the most beautiful, talented, rebellious nation in the history of Earth. And now, you're in your Vegas years. You've squeezed yourself into a white jumpsuit, you're wheezing your way through 'Love Me Tender' and you might be about to pass away bloated on the toilet. But you're still the King.

  John Oliver

  Beautiful, Kings, Thinking

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• I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong, Thinking, Stills

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• Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Children, Dancing, Spoiled

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• The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Party, Character

  Leon Trotsky (2017). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.596, Penguin UK

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• The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.

  John F. Kennedy

  Land, Southern, Rising

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.

  Karl Marx

  Honesty, Past, Men

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.594, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.

  Aleister Crowley

  Men, Years, Ideas

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• If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Numbers, History, Mind

  Wilhelm von Humboldt (2008). “The Limits of State Action”, p.195, Cambridge University Press

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• No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are, we lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo's Women's War, the marriage-resisting women silk workers of pre-Revolutionary China, the millions of widows, midwives, and the women healers tortured and burned as witches for three centuries in Europe.

  Adrienne Rich

  Inspiring, War, Believe

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• In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

  Martin Luther

  Revolution, Retreat, Planning

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• And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.

  Katey Sagal

  Art, Father, Thinking

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• The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.

  Adrienne Rich

  Keys, Doors, Tolerance

  Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.137, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

  Vladimir Lenin

  White, Gloves, Revolution

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• Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.

  Lionel Trilling

  Humor, Littles, Weapons

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• Outcasts of war, misfits, rebellious souls, Seekers of some vague kingdom in the stars - They hide out in the hills and stir up trouble, Call themselves prophets, too, and prophesy, That something new is coming to the world, The Lord knows what! Well, it's a long time coming, And, meanwhile, we're the wheat between the stones.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Stars, War, Long

  "A Child Is Born". Poetic Christmas drama in one act by Stephen Vincent Benet (first presented on radio as part of the anthology program "Cavalcade of America"), December 21, 1942.

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• The tighter a deadline is, the more I'm inclined to be perverse and rebellious - I'll start thinking about another, different project, until it becomes the most fantastic thing which I must start immediately.

  Errollyn Wallen

  Thinking, Priorities, Different

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• The world has known only very few rebels. But now is the time: if humanity proves incapable of producing a large number of rebels, a rebellious spirit, then our days on the earth are numbered. We have to change our consciousness, create more meditative energy in the world, create more lovingness.

  Rajneesh

  Motivational, Numbers, Humanity

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