Quotes and Sayings about Rebellion
"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."
- Archibald Alexander
(Related: God, Christ, May, Now, Rebellion, Repentance, Will)
"Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776."
- Susan B. Anthony
(Related: Men, Women, Cause, Discontent, Revolution, Nation, Rebellion)
"Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion."
- Mary Astell
(Related: Religion, Christian, Rebellion)
"Rebellions of the belly are the worst."
- Francis Bacon
"That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place."
- Lester Bangs
(Related: Pretty, Reason, Rebellion)
"I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me."
- Tom Berenger
(Related: Acting, Irish, Rebellion, Writing)
"I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously."
- David Byrne
(Related: Rebellion)
"Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is."
- James Branch Cabell
(Related: Poetry, Being, Man, Rebellion)
"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."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Thought, Revolution, Name, Reality, Rebellion, World)
"Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Act, Being, Innocence, Nostalgia, Rebellion)
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
- Albert Camus
(Related: Act, Existence, Rebellion, World)
"Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity."
- Jennifer Capriati
(Related: Life, Confusion, Identity, Quiet, Rebellion, World)
"So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities."
- Stokely Carmichael
(Related: Power, Cities, Civil rights, Committee)
"This writer, and all others of his stamp, should remember that the colonies are now in a state of revolt and rebellion against their rightful sovereign."
- James Chalmers
(Related: Now, Rebellion, State, Writer)
"The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion."
- Iris Chang
(Related: Women, Rebellion, Soldiers)
"The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration."
- Edwin Louis Cole
(Related: Rebellion, Repentance, Ruin)
"Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion."
- Alice Cooper
(Related: Christian, Being, Drinking, Rebellion)
"Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment."
- James Gould Cozzens
(Related: Time, Accomplishment, Rebellion, Temper)
"I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion."
- Phil Donahue
(Related: Certainty, Devotion, Doubt, Rebellion)
"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."
- Frederick Douglass
(Related: Causes, Rebellion)
"The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable."
- Andrea Dworkin
(Related: Genius, Reality, Rebellion, United)
"No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots."
- Barbara Ehrenreich
(Related: Patriotism, Dissent, Duty, Hell, Rebellion)
"Find a good teacher, as I found for my sons. I feel the worst thing you can do is to try and teach your own children yourself, because there is a natural rebellion that occurs."
- Keith Emerson
(Related: Children, Rebellion, Sons)
"Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion."
- Eminem
(Related: Life, Home, Fantasy, Living, Pretty, Rap, Rebellion, Saying, School)
"There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy."
- Edward Everett
(Related: Congress, Influence, Rebellion)
"Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!"
- Marianne Faithfull
(Related: Rebellion)
"Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it."
- Curt Flood
(Related: Baseball, Rebellion)
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
- Benjamin Franklin
(Related: God, Obedience, Rebellion)
"Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert."
- Khalil Gibran
(Related: Truth, Rebellion, Spring)
"If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse."
- Charles Inglis
(Related: Country, Now, Rebellion)
"A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced."
- Charles Inglis
(Related: Rebellion, Republican, State)
"A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War."
- Charles Inglis
(Related: War, Failure, Duty, Nation, Rebellion)
"So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching."
- Phillip E. Johnson
(Related: Science, Fear, Content, First, Public, Reason, Rebellion, Religious, Teaching)
"Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty."
- Henry Knox
(Related: Government, Liberty, Name, Now, Reason, Rebellion)
"It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed."
- T. E. Lawrence
(Related: Men, Fear, Rebellion, Sea)
"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."
- George Henry Lewes
(Related: Independence, Originality, Rebellion, Sincerity)
"It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause."
- H. L. Mencken
(Related: Cause, Leaders, Majority, Rebellion, Sound)
"Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion."
- Dudley Nichols
(Related: Printing, Rebellion)
"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
- George Orwell
(Related: Funny, Rebellion)
"A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
- George Orwell
(Related: Rebellion)
"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."
- Emmeline Pankhurst
(Related: Life, Care, Enemy, Meeting, Property, Rebellion, Security)
"Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules."
- Paul Parker
(Related: Philosophy, Rebellion, Rules)
"The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion."
- Kevin Patterson
(Related: Rebellion, World)
"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
- William Penn
(Related: God, Obedience, Rebellion)
"Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God."
- Orson Pratt
(Related: God, People, Laws, Rebellion)
"Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before."
- Margaret Lee Runbeck
(Related: Truth, Learning, Rebellion)
"I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence."
- Brooke Shields
(Related: Daughter, Adolescence, Rebellion)
"I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid."
- Kevin Spacey
(Related: Family, Focus, Interest, Rebellion)
"I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn."
- Scott Stapp
(Related: Life, God, Christ, Rebellion, Trying)
"In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell."
- Emanuel Swedenborg
(Related: Christian, Angels, Beginning, Devil, Heaven, Hell, Light, Satan, World)
"The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion."
- Algernon Sydney
(Related: Nation, Rebellion)
"It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success."
- Amy Tan
(Related: Success, Conformity, Rebellion)
"I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy."
- Vivienne Westwood
(Related: Being, Energy, Rebellion, Trying, Youth)
"Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is so powerful, and you don't fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight."
- George C. Williams
(Related: God, Being, Fight, Job, Nothing, Rebellion)
"Repression will provoke rebellion."
- Hugh Williamson
(Related: Rebellion, Repression, Will)