Rebel Quotes - Page 8

Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.

Why these people who want to do so much good for everyone, who call themselves government and this and that, why them say you must not use the herb? You see, them say you must not use the herb because it makes you a rebel. Against what?

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

In my own way, I was a rebellious kid.

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

Women like this kind of rebel image in men because there's a thrill in it, especially for those who are tired and burdened with their lives.

The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.

Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

Just listening to Pac, ain't gon' make it stop A rebel in your thoughts, ain't gon' make it halt If you don't become an actor, you'll never be a factor

Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious.

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.

Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.

I'm not going to be a rebel and offend anybody, but I'm not going to live in somebody else's image.

Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.