God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into… — Scott Stapp Copy Share Image
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I see no profound progress taking place when there is no hope, no inspiration, only drastic overthrow and rebellion. Before having a… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Wherever the sword of rebellion is drawn to protect the rights of man, I am a rebel. Wherever the sword of rebellion… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
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… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once.… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in… — John Gaddis Copy Share Image
“The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“If we had learned anything over the last decade, it was that there was no other way to defeat slavery, except with… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other… — James Gould Cozzens Copy Share Image
Without the principle of private property there would be no reason for government, which is necessary solely for the purpose of keeping… — Ricardo Flores Magon Copy Share Image
If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
I could take everything I have built up over 35 years in my ministry and destroy it all if I went out… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are,… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society the unruly and heroic tramps will… — Renzo Novatore Copy Share Image
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I was impressed that when it came to making 'Rebellion,' they sought out Aku Louhimies, a Finnish director who's part of that… — Brian Gleeson Copy Share Image
No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without… — Samuel Eliot Morison Copy Share Image
“I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all…They want a certain kind of identity; they're jockeying with… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly. Oh we, who wished to lay… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
My rebellion has always been positive and connected with my work. That's how I've sung in foreign languages and collaborated with international… — Asha Bhosle Copy Share Image
We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Not only is true love rare and true rebellion rare, real love is itself a radical form of rebellion - engagement, thinking,… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
You gotta understand, the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the United States...Now that has been a very… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
In 18th-century Scotland, the main event was the Jacobite rebellion under Bonnie Prince Charlie, so that seems like a nice dramatic backdrop. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I was a rebel, the worst kid you could ask for. I did the opposite of everything my parents asked me to… — Fala Chen Copy Share Image
“It happened that at the late age of twenty-seven I had run away from home. High time, you might say; but rebels… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is not a campaign. It is a rebellion. We are in active rebellion against our government. The social contract is broken,… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
“is a rebellion of the branches against the tree: if the rebels could succeed they would find that they had destroyed themselves” — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image