Rebellion Quotes · Page 11

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

— Frank Zappa

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

— Curt Flood

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

— Oscar Wilde

If ever there was a rebellion against religion, it was Jesus himself.

— Anonymous

“Relativism too often is nothing more than a fancy last gasp of adolescent rebellion.”

— Tom Morris

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

— Pierre Corneille

Successful rebellions always begin in secret.

— Stephen King

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

— Shia LaBeouf

I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a…

— Tom Berenger

But even quashed rebellions leave us different. Because freedom may be a forbidden fruit in tyrannies, but once tasted, it is unforgettable.

— Anonymous

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion.

— Kevin Patterson

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.

— Charles Dudley Warner

“Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion”

— Alessandro Manzoni

Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion,…

— Don Tapscott

Certainly, no revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words…

— Mark Hopkins

There was a point when I was so sick of this physical perfection thing that I thought it would be good for…

— Alicia Silverstone

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

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

— Paul Harvey

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

— Kate Pierson

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

For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement…

— Aristotle

You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

When I was around 16 or 17, I got asked to model, but because I was very 'tomboy' at the time, I…

— Suki Waterhouse

There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once.…

— Bill Vaughan

I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a…

— Jack Nicholson

The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in…

— John Gaddis

“When I was a child, I always hated being used in my father's sermons, shrunk to a symbol to illustrate some larger…

— Patricia Lockwood

“If we had learned anything over the last decade, it was that there was no other way to defeat slavery, except with…

— Russell Banks

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very…

— Emma Goldman

Ultimately the body will rebel. Even if it can be temporarily pacified with the help of drugs, cigarettes or medicine, it usually…

— Alice Miller

“The biggest act of rebellion right now is remaining defiantly hopeful.”

— Rupert Dreyfus

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

— George Crumb

If someone gives you ruled paper, write the other way.

— Ali

Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.

— Josh McDowell

Rebellion' was amazing, there was a lot of anticipation leading up to that event.

— Tessa Blanchard

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

— Adolf Hitler

“He may be angry at our rebellion, but he is never angry at our return.”

— Bryan Chapell

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.

— Elvis Presley