Quotes of Rebel - somelinesforyou

“ Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“ Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite! ”

- Karl Marx

“ The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. ”

- Grover Cleveland

“ Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. ”

- Hannah Arendt

“ If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it. ”

- Norman Thomas

“ Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. ”

- Henry Jacobsen

“ Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts — it's what you do with what you have left. ”

- Hubert H. Humphrey

“ So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks. ”

- Samuel Bonom

“ The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. ”

- Erich Fromm

“ To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power. ”

- Jane Fonda

“ We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ It's up to us to accept our circumstances, to make the most of our possibilities. Until we face the facts, we won't change them. ”

- Alexandra Stoddard

“ Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns. ”

- Unknown

“ Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. ”

- Thomas Browne

“ Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ 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. ”

- William Petersen

“ 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. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ Are terrorists going to be deterred — are terrorists going to be scared if we react violently? No. They love it. That's what they dote on. They dote on violence. They dote on having more reasons to commit more terrorism. ”

- Howard Zinn

“ What is a rebel? A man who says no. ”

- Albert Camus

“ He drew a circle that shut me out — Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in. ”

- Edwin Markham

“ As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. ”

- Clarence Darrow

“ A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against. ”

- Madonna

“ I'm totally going through a rebel period right now. It's sort of waning, but … ach, I'm allowed, right? It's OK, right? ”

- Claire Danes

“ Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. ”

- H.G. Wells

“ No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. ”

- Lawrence Durrell

“ Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels, men rebel. ”

- Alexander Pope
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