He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
Quotes about rebels (16 Quotes)
I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.
Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought.
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.
But since the last quarter of the year, we are witnessing a marked deterioration, with both parties, both rebels and the government, involved in outright breaches of the ceasefire agreement, including attacks against the African Union itself and attacks against internally displaced persons.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
An avant-garde man is like an enemy inside a city he is bent on destroying, against which he rebels for like any system of government, an established form of expression is also a form of oppression.
If Netanyahu had taken action on time to stop the disengagement plan, I wouldn't be here running. He didn't stand up when it became apparent that there was corruption. The only ones who stood up were a few rebels who proved that they couldn't be bought.
The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels to the horrible squareness of our institutions, the idiocy of power, the debasement of sexual instincts, and the failure of writers to be alienated enough. The poems and novels of these same rebellious spirits, and their theoretical statements, are grimy and gritty and very boring too, besides being nonsensical, and it is evident by now that polymorphous sexuality and vehement declarations of alienation are not going to produce great works of art either.
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.
The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.