Rebellion Quotations

Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.

I do fear for the generations of people who came of age thinking that pop-punk is what punk is, and that all the rebellion you need is just to stick your tongue out in the mirror every once in a while.

My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war, where you have a man who is a slave who is then turned into a gladiator who broke out of the gladiator school and led a rebellion and then became the face of the war.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

The Band was rebelling against the rebellion. The rebellion went to a place where it became too obvious, too trendy, like you were just following the pack. So it was our choice to get off the bandwagon - no pun intended - and do things that were in our background and what was the most honest thing to do.

While most Americans know about the Boston Tea Party, few are aware of the Liberty Tree and how important it was to fanning the flames of rebellion that led to the revolution in 1775 and the Declaration of Independence.

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.

Media is extraordinarily important and is an extraordinarily powerful tool. There's a reason that the first things that a rebellion or revolt will take is the media. The story you transmit is the story that becomes a given, or the narrative of a country and people.

I found out that total creativity involves a certain intellectual rebellion - not to become a criminal, but somehow. to be totally creating, you have to do things that are a little bit forbidden. You have to feel free, and we know freedom is a hard thing to get.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

An oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but this oligarchy of sex which makes father, brothers, husband, sons, the oligarchs over the mother and sisters, the wife and daughters of every household... carries discord and rebellion into every home of the nation.

In 'The Hunger Games,' in most people's idea, in terms of rebellion or a civil-war situation, that would meet the criteria for a necessary war. These people are oppressed, their children are being taken off and put in gladiator games. They're impoverished, they're starving, they're brutalized.

If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.

For me the safety pin is about rebellion, and I'm punk in the soul.

The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

The biggest rebellion I could've ever had with my father would be to work in a bank. He would have disowned me. As long as I was doing something where I didn't have to wear a tie, I was good.

The people who had been in rebellion must necessarily come back into the Union, and be incorporated as an integral part of the nation. Naturally the nearer they were placed to equality with the people who had rebelled, the more reconciled they would

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

The only time I've seen any rebellion was in the fifties, sixties and early seventies. The rest of it you can keep.

When I was 15, 16 and joining this band when I was 18, I was just enthralled, and going to a basement and seeing it filled with kids was the best thing in the world. Now I'm looking at it like 'Basements? Is that really as good as it gets here?' And now there are Buffalo bands saying they're only going to play basements, like a rebellion thing. For us, there weren't any other options.

The Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion.

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

Pot is a vehicle for the show. It's so in the zeitgeist. It's talked about in the news, in the courts. It's a morally ambiguous narcotic (and) the universal rebellion drug.

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim.

I was the angriest little person imaginable. I woke up with a frown every morning. I barely talked, wore black all the time and had some serious teenage rebellion years.

But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, / And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and forsookest them not.

Bush is trying to get more support generally from the American public by seeming more moderate and showing he's a strong leader at the same time he has a rebellion within his own party. The far right is starting to be very open about their claim that he's not a real conservative.

It is not a full-blown rebellion yet, but definitely an escalation.

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.

My mother is not a Catholic, but she's always tried to drag my brother and my sister and I to church from a very young age, and we have always put up a little bit of a rebellion against it.

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

Rebellion never goes without consequences.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

Rebellion is necessary for development of character.

The spirit of rebellion must live in Serbia. Only then will we know we are alive and not servants of a dictator.

I wanted a play that would paint the full face of sensuality, rebellion and revivalism.

This is the first time that an incumbent prime minister is declaring his intention of dismantling dozens of settlements, and nothing is happening. No demonstrations and protests, no rebellion within the party, and no media uproar.

It's that iconic imagery of that sea of raised fists during a live performance. It's a symbol of unity and strength and at the same time there are elements of defiance and rebellion that are inherent in that raised fist symbol. It's just one of those iconic pieces of imagery from the life of rock 'n' roll.

The U.S. military is reluctant to be drawn into a counterinsurgency war. They don't think it's possible to say you're going to go down there and help the Colombian military shoot drug traffickers without shooting at the FARC, and that makes them very nervous. It's a rebellion that's been going on for some 40 years, and it's plainly not going to come to an end soon -- the Pentagon fears it's a whirlpool that's going to suck them in.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

if the people had supported this rebellion then the government couldn't have calmed things down.

Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.

I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

By all means, law and order must be maintained, and this can be done by the government without declaring a state of rebellion or imposing martial law or suspending the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus.

General Kenobi, Years ago, you served my father in the Clone Wars; now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Empire. I regret that I am unable to present my father's request to you in person; but my ship has fallen under attack and I'm afraid my mission to Alderaan has failed. I've placed information vital to the survival of the rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit. My father will know how to retrieve it. You must see this droid safely delivered to him on Alderaan. This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope.

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

Criticism is the seed of divorce, and it develops rebellion in our young.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.

I attribute it to innovative marketing, rebellion by the people, you tell them not to smoke they're going to do it anyway, and a faster resilience by the industry.

The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule.

A popular disturbance never remains long in the full control of those who start it.

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

His puppyhood was a period of foolish rebellion. He was always worsted, but he fought back because it was his nature to fight back. And he was unconquerable.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

Taxing Women is a must-have primer for any woman who wants to understand how our current tax system affects her family's economic condition. In plain English, McCaffery explains how the tax code stacks the deck against women and why it's in women's economic interest to lead the next great tax rebellion.

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.

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

Every new fashion is a form of rebellion.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.

I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl ...

I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God.

Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.

Beauty is a rebellion against time.

Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.

Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.

When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.

My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

The despairing soul is a rebel.

Rules without relationship leads to rebellion.

My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

In an age of relativism, orthodoxy is the only possible rebellion left

The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.