Quotes on Rebel

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

The voice of the special rebels and prophets, recommending discontent, should, as I have said, sound now and then suddenly, like a trumpet. But the voices of the saints and sages, recommending contentment, should sound unceasingly, like the sea.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him for his own sake. This means that you can rebel against God and be alienated from him either by breaking his rules or by keeping all of them diligently. It 's a shocking message: Careful obedience to God's law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God .

If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me... but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.

It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine.

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.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

But here steps in Satan, the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds. He makes man ashamed of his bestial ignorance and obedience; he emancipates him, stamps upon his brow the seal of liberty and humanity, in urging him to disobey and eat of the fruit of knowledge.

If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.