Rebel Quotes - Page 9

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure, disinterested altruism - something that has no place in nature, something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world. We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

The powers of darkness are still part of the spiritual world - they don't become something else when they rebel against God. Disembodied believers are, by definition, also part of the spiritual world. So are God and Christ.

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God.

We are ap tu hate them, who wont take our advice, and despise them who do.

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

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.

We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.

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