Rebellion Quotes · Page 11

Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes

— Colin Powell

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.

— Norman Thomas

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

— Joyce Meyer

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.

— Suzanne Collins

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

— Mary Astell

People become freemen when they realise they do not need a leader

— Robert Menard

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

— David Byrne

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

— Edmund Burke

There's a lot of things that I think you got to deal with. Hillary Clinton had to put down a rebellion in…

— Van Jones

The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which…

— Allen Ginsberg

It means we're on your side." That's what Bonnie said. I have people on my side? What side? Am I unwittingly the…

— Suzanne Collins

I think there are certain genres of music where people are allowed to go on, but there is something about rock and…

— Kate Pierson

My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But…

— Pink

“to grumble at anything that happens is a rebellion against Nature, in some part of which are bound up the natures of…

— Marcus Aurelius

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What do we do if we come across trouble, sir?' Cahill asked, slapping at a fly. 'As much as I enjoy giving…

— David Cook

“He knows how to market himself well. Nowadays, that's all that seems to count. He's rebellious in a way that appeals to…

— Jess C. Scott

If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and…

— Leonard Ravenhill

If you're openly living in unrepentant sin, whatever it may be, not just homosexuality, adultery, fornication, premarital sex between heterosexuals, whatever it…

— Chris Broussard

Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we…

— Paul Harvey

“Even if you hadn't entirely deposed (and possibly killed) not one but two governments and destabilized all sorts of political regions you…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Rebellion? I don't like hearing such a word from you," Ivan said with feeling. "One cannot live by rebellion, and I want…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I was raised fundamentalist Christian, and now I'm not that. It was not an act of rebellion or anything. For me, it…

— Chris Thile

Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

— Thomas Carlyle

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

— John F. Kennedy

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

“...if charity begins at home, empire begins in other men's homes.”

— Roger Casement

“Rebels are simply oppressed individuals demanding their rights.”

— Sharon Ashwood

“Rebellion with him cancelled the slave covenants of the Constitution and discharged the North from their further observance.”

— Archibald Henry Grimke

“Running from the presence of God has the futility of "trying to shovel smoke with a rake".”

— Paul David Tripp

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

— Johann Baptist Metz

My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.

— Walt Whitman

“Cherish your existence, for memories become legacies and life can change in an instant.”

— Ross Caligiuri

He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

— David Levithan

You could say that my life since has been a sustained act of luxurious rebellion.

— David Starkey

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

— George Bernard Shaw

We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.

— Arno Gruen