Higher Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Higher Higher Rule Lawlessness Mere Rebellion Rebellion Right Revolution Right Rebellion Rule Wander
Rebellion is not always the right thing. Following the rules is not always the right thing. You have to think for yourself and identify… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Certainly, I don't believe in rebellion for its own sake. But I think if you strive to do something in an individualistic way, you… — Billy Squier Copy Share Image
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You can rebel in different ways. Civil disobedience is rebelling. As long as it's peaceful, of course. — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“On the basis of the evidence, the only conclusion we can draw from Scheler’s remark is that, thanks to the theory of political freedom,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way… — Stephen Chow Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist. — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman never leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth. — John Dickinson Copy Share Image