Rebellion Quotes
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I wanted a play that would paint the full face of sensuality, rebellion and revivalism. (Quote by - Gwyn Thomas)
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
I have a bit of a rebellious nature. (Quote by - John Cusack)
What is a rebel? A man who says no. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest. (Quote by - Yasir Arafat)
Unthread the rude eye of rebellion, And welcome home again discarded faith. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. (Quote by - T. S. Eliot)
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
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 (Quote by - Holly Marie Combs)
When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away. (Quote by - English Proverb)
There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns. (Quote by - Sir Philip Sidney)
A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. (Quote by - Henry Clay)
But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out. (Quote by - Archibald Alexander)
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws. (Quote by - Leon Trotsky)
During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland (Quote by - Jules Verne)
I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against. (Quote by - Madonna Louise Ciccone)
All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears. (Quote by - Rebecca West)
This word, "rebellion," it had froze them up, as fish are in a pond. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. (Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. (Quote by - Tom Robbins)
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion. (Quote by - Emmeline Pankhurst)
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. (Quote by - James Branch Cabell)
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. (Quote by - H L Mencken)
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. (Quote by - Katey Sagal)
The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm, But draw their swords to do them good, As doctors cure by letting blood. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation for the rebel. (Quote by - Richard Roberts)
My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible. (Quote by - Tahar Ben Jelloun)
Quell rebellion before it spreads. (Quote by - Vespasian)
The hearts Of all his people shall revolt from him, And kiss the lips of unacquainted change. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. (Quote by - Mikhail Bakunin)
A riot is the language of the unheard. (Quote by - Martin Luther King Jr.)
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. (Quote by - Scottish Proverb)
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Should doubt knock at your doorway, just say to those skeptical, disturbing, rebellious thoughts, I propose to stay with my faith, with the faith of my people. (Quote by - Thomas S. Monson)
I was raised by the Christian Brothers, who believe in that, fortunately. They were, to me, the most rebellious arm of the Catholic Church - and one of the most liberal and forward thinking. (Quote by - Paul Kantner)
In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time. (Quote by - Marlo Thomas)
To resist violence is implanted in the nature of man. (Quote by - Tacitus)
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, Meeting the check of such another day; And since this business so fair is done, Let us not leave till all our own be won. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Infidels in all ages have battled for the rights of man, and have at all times been the fearless advocates of liberty and justice. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
I'm totally going through a rebel period right now. It's sort of waning, but … ach, I'm allowed, right? It's OK, right? (Quote by - Claire Danes)
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. (Quote by - Lawrence Durrell)
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not believe in Him. I never believed the people who said God was destructive or punishing. (Quote by - Alfre Woodard)
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child. (Quote by - George Crumb)
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child. (Quote by - Suzanne Farrell)
The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all -- he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. (Quote by - John Reed)
Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker? (Quote by - Brenda Lee)
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Fellow citizens, you must conquer this rebellion or you must submit to a recognition of the Southern Confederacy. (Quote by - John Brough)
Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money. (Quote by - Paul Weyrich)
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. … It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
