Rebellious Quotes
244 Rebellious quotes by 197 unique authors
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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
— George Bernard Shaw
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If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Italian politicians are too stupid to deserve my vote, but they can get over it with my critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic and vituperative invectives.
— William C. Brown
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In Italy, above all in view of the next general election, political parties, movements and new politicians continue to proliferate, naturally all inspired by the…
— William C. Brown
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To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow…
— Billie Burke
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All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man.
— Wyndham Lewis
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Perfect works are rare, because they must be produced at the happy moment when taste and genius unite; and this rare conjuncture, like that of…
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.
— Milovan ?ilas
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I'm not rebellious, but I am very strong-willed. I know what I believe in, and I know what I think is right.
— Alli Simpson
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Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so…
— Daniel Handler
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I think when your parents are as rebellious as mine were, it's difficult to top them. So what's the point?
— Georgia May Jagger
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I was quite straight-laced. I was quite academic until I was about 14 and then I went to boarding school where I had the opportunity…
— Carey Mulligan
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Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.
— Robert Motherwell
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It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with…
— Christopher Bailey
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The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist…
— Eric Maisel
Who Wrote These Rebellious Quotes
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