Rebellious Quotes - Page 13

• The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Government, Idols

  Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Idolatry"

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• Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.

  Jesse Spencer

  Nightmare, Choir, Mum

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Energy, Spirit

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• I didn't consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Country, Fashion, Stupid

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• I heard you're campaigning on my behalf." He walked over to me. "That wouldn't be because you'd miss me too much if I were gone,would it?" "Don't be absurd," I scoffed. "I don't condone murder, even for people like you." "People like me,huh?" He cocked an eyebrow. "You mean devilishly handsome, debonair young men who come to sweep rebellious princesses of their feet?" "You came to kidnap me, not sweep me off my feet," I said,but he waved his hand at the idea. "Semantics.

  Amanda Hocking

  Princess, Mean, Men

  Amanda Hocking (2014). “Trylle: The Complete Trilogy”, p.298, Pan Macmillan

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• I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.

  Camille Desmoulins

  Jesus, Age, Three

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• Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

  Alan Barth

  Atheism, Liberty, Criticism

  "The Loyalty of Free Men". Book by Alan Barth, 1951.

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• Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Self, Justice, Revolution

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• Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

  Walter Raleigh

  Past, Thinking, World

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1751). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch”, p.116

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• What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Revolution, Rebellion, Burden

  Man and Superman (1903) "The Revolutionist's Handbook," foreword

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• Facts are counterrevolutionary.

  Eric Hoffer

  Literature, Facts

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

  Anton Chekhov

  Funny, Failure, Communication

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• To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Love, Play, Roles

  Rita Mae Brown (1976). “A plain brown rapper”, Diana Pr

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• Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Practice, Civilization, Rotten

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4494, e-artnow

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• Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

  George Bernard Shaw

  Failure, Men, Giving

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2046, e-artnow

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• Only secretly rebellious teachers have ever done right by our least advantaged kids.

  Deborah Meier

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

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• Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

  Eric Hoffer

  Country, Environment, Revolutionary

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• To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

  Mary McCarthy

  Children, Past, Reality

  Mary McCarthy (2011). “Memories Of A Catholic Girlhood”, p.16, Random House

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• Holiness is not reserved for a small number of exceptional persons. It is for everyone. It is the Lord who brings us to holiness when we are willing to collaborate in the salvation of the world for the glory of God, despite our sin and our sometimes rebellious temperament.

  Pope John Paul II

  Small Numbers, World, Holiness

  Pope John Paul II (2012). “A Pilgrim Pope: Messages for the World”, p.261, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.

  Frantz Fanon

  Men, Thinking, Air

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.224, Pluto Press

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• Italian politicians are too stupid to deserve my vote, but they can get over it with my critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic and vituperative invectives.

  William C. Brown

  Stupid, Italian, Vote

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• If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.

  Pat Buchanan

  Media, Revolution, Medical

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• If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in which it would make us holy to be permitted to live; and there must be a strange dissolution of natural affection, a strange unthankfulness for all that homes have given and parents taught, a strange consciousness that we have been unfaithful to our fathers honor, or that our own lives are not such as would make our dwellings sacred to our children, when each man would fain build to himself, and build for the little revolution of his own life only.

  John Ruskin

  Children, Father, Home

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.132, University of Virginia Press

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• If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Honesty, Lying, Book

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.601, Penguin

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