Rebellion Quotes · Page 13

Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion.

— Alice Cooper

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

— James A. Baldwin

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

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

— Gordon B. Hinckley

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

— Edmund Burke

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

“There will never be rebellion here. In Richmond and Williamsburg there has been talk. Jefferson isn’t reliable and Patrick Henry is a…

— James A. Michener

The interest right now is taking resources back to the state and allowing the minority to have tyranny over the minority. It's…

— Jesse Jackson

Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion,…

— Thomas Hobbes

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds…

— Albert Camus

“It's significantly more satisfying to kick a wall than it is to kick thin air. For the rebellious teen- or the teen…

— Robin Wasserman

“Anger is a gift. Remember that." She stood. "You gotta grasp onto it, hold it tight and use it as ammunition. You…

— Mark Oshiro

“History is a raw onion sandwich, it just repeats, it burps. We've seen it again and again this year. Same old story,…

— Julian Barnes

My mother is not a Catholic, but she's always tried to drag my brother and my sister and I to church from…

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

When God grabs you by the scruff of the neck then although theoretically you have a freedom to say 'no', in another…

— Desmond Tutu

“May be the power lies in the hands of the one who holds the gun... so he just presses the trigger whenever…

— Sanhita Baruah

“If we turn to those restrictions that only apply to certain classes of society, we encounter a state of things which is…

— Sigmund Freud

For me, on every project, I realize that I've boxed myself into a corner, or that the play necessitates some sort of…

— Annie Baker

An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in…

— Edward Gibbon

“Too often, we say we are defeated by this or that sin. No, we are not defeated. We are simply disobedient. It…

— Jerry Bridges

“The storm of revolution,’ as Andre Chenier said, ‘blows out the torch of poetry.’ It is not for some little time that…

— Oscar Wilde

“I ignored him, concentrating on Lilith. "According to the stories, after you were expelled from Eden you went down into Hell, where…

— Simon R. Green

We're on safe ground to presume that self-interest and hubris are at the core of the rebellion.

— Michael S. Heiser

We had a 25-step process coming up with the name Extinction Rebellion.

— Gail Bradbrook

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

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

— Suzanne Collins

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

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

— Mary Astell

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

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

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