Rebellion Quotes · Page 9

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

— Alice Walker

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

— Abraham Lincoln

I love the classic trucker jacket as an icon of rock 'n' roll and rebellion.

— Shepard Fairey

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

— Albert Camus

“For what is love but a great rebellion against caution and sense?”

— Meredith Duran

“Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.”

— Patti Smith

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

— Thomas Jefferson

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

— Marie Lu

“The problem was, my rebellion against her lifestyle was now taking me to the biblical foundation she had thought she’d escaped. She…

— Greg Laurie

There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have…

— Criss Jami

The quest for slowness, which begins as a simple rebellion against the impoverishment of taste in our lives, makes it possible to…

— Carlo Petrini

“My father could have made good money selling them, but if the officials found out he would have been publicly executed for…

— Suzanne Collins

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating…

— Stokely Carmichael

Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence,…

— Langdon Brown Gilkey

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion,…

— Albert Camus

The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700…

— Saoirse Ronan

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

— Russell Banks

Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to…

— Karen Armstrong

“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

“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

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

— John Gaddis

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

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

— Bill Vaughan

“Were government a mere manufacture or article of commerce, immaterial by whom it should be made or sold, we might as well…

— Thomas Paine

“A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.”

— Pat Conroy

Well, these tattoos aren't really rebellion. These tattoos are all tattoos I've had since I have been a pastor.

— Jay Bakker

Hip-hop became the voice of rebellion and the youth, as rock music did in the '60s.

— Gza

When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.

— Thomas Paine

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

— Chuck Palahniuk

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

— Peter Kreeft

Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory

— Anonymous

“all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the Atmosphere.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“If we neither regard the deeds nor respect the works of God, it leads to rebellion.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Just being yourself, being who you are, is a successful rebellion.

— Anonymous

I don’t know, it is a very quiet rebellion. […] I don’t get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say…

— Bobbie Ann Mason

“The slaves toiling in the temple of this god began to feel rebellion at his harsh tasks.”

— Stephen Crane

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

— Indira Gandhi

“There's treachery in her hips, rebellion in her heart & magic in her mind.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.

— Joyce Meyer

“Baldwin exercised a tiny bit of filial rebellion and chose not to address the phone calls just yet.”

— J.T. Ellison