Best Rebellion Quotes
466 Rebellion quotes by 339 unique authors
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If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.
— William Shakespeare
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It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.
— William Shakespeare
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Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies:…
— Albert Camus
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No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
— Lawrence Durrell
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As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.
— Robert M. Lindner
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We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and…
— John F. Kennedy
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The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.
— Charles Dudley Warner
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Those who are bent on revolutionizing society may be divided into those who seek something for themselves thereby and those who seek something for their…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if…
— William Ralph Inge
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Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.
— Aristotle
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All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
— Thomas Carlyle
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for…
— Eric Hoffer
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Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.
— Aristotle
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Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.
— John F. Kennedy
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Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.
— Louis Kronenberger
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Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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