Famous Quotes - Tags - Rebellion

  • ... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences. More
  • ... resistance to tyranny is man’s highest ideal. More
  • ... the task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it... More
  • ... wounding God with his blue face,
    his tyranny, his absolute kingdom,
    with my aphrodisiac. More
  • A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them... More
  • Affection, indulgence, and humor alike are powerless against the instinct of children to rebel.... More
  • All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many... More
  • Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and... More
  • Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion. More
  • Champing against the bit as a new-yoked colt, you struggle and fight against the reins. More
  • Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond,... More
  • Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. More
  • For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to... More
  • He who wearies of a king can weary of a father. More
  • How quickly nature falls into revolt
    When gold becomes her object! More
  • I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear. More
  • I come from a long line of male chauvinists in a very traditional family. To rebel against my... More
  • I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn’t know it existed. It didn’t occur... More
  • I fear me you but warm the starvèd snake,
    Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your... More
  • I have always rebelled against the unadorned, the unbefitting, the unawakened, the unresisting,... More
  • I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the... More
  • I refuse to be. In
    the madhouse of the inhuman
    I refuse to live.
    With the wolves of... More
  • I struck the board, and cried, “No more.
    I will abroad.”
    What? Shall I ever sigh and... More
  • I will weep for thee,
    For this revolt of thine methinks is like
    Another fall of man. More
  • I wouldn’t have turned out the way I was if I didn’t have all those old-fashioned values to... More
  • In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act... More
  • Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws. More
  • Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection’s failure to substitute misrule for bad... More
  • Insurrection:... insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous,... More
  • It is not strange that some of our revoltes preach trial marriage: for the only safe way to marry... More
  • It’s not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. More
  • I’ll kill you, gal, if you don’t stand up for yourself. Fight, and if you can’t fight,... More
  • Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. More
  • Let it all hang out. Let it seem bitchy, catty, dykey, frustrated, crazy, nutty, frigid,... More
  • Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in... More
  • Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. More
  • Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral... More
  • My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill,
    And fighting was not his trade;
    But his rusty... More
  • No more picking on Dim, brother. That’s part of the new way. More
  • Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted. More
  • out of great Russia came three
    dusky syllables workmen took guns and went out to die
    for:... More
  • Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it. More
  • Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. More
  • Rome alone can resist Rome. More
  • Scholars planning a rebellion could never succeed even in three years. More
  • The area [of toilet training] is one where a child really does possess the power to defy. Strong... More
  • The best thing in life is doing things people say you can’t do. More
  • The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could... More
  • The Cairo conference ... is about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and... More
  • The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. More
  • The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent... More
  • The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a... More
  • The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value... More
  • The warning given to Louis XVI: “No, sire, this is not a rebellion, it is a revolution,”... More
  • There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security... More
  • They have gone about the world like wind,
    But little time had they to pray
    For whom the... More
  • This I do know and can say to you: Our country is in more danger now than at any time since the... More
  • Those who obey the will of Heaven will prosper, while those who oppose Heaven will perish. More
  • Those who trouble their households will inherit wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise. More
  • To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind’s wisdom... More
  • To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires... More
  • To face the garment of rebellion
    With some fine color that may please the eye
    Of fickle... More
  • To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In... More
  • Today so much rebellion is aimless and demoralizing precisely because children have no values to... More
  • We’ll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that? More
  • What is a rebel? A man who says no. More
  • When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity. More
  • When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away. More
  • When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics,... More
  • When you come to a place where you have to go left or right, go straight ahead. More
  • Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused... More
  • Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets... More
  • “... War on the destiny of man!
    Doom on the sun!”
    Before death takes you, O take back... More
  • “10 April 1800—
    Blacks rebellious. Crew uneasy. Our linguist says
    their moaning is a... More

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