Quotes of Rebellion - somelinesforyou

“ A little rebellion now and then… is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ”

- Aristotle

“ Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ”

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

“ I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. ”

- George Orwell

“ Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. ”

- Albert Camus

“ Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. ”

- Albert Camus

“ No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. ”

- Barbara Ehrenreich

“ If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation. ”

- Abigail Adams

“ Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. ”

- Kahlil Gibran

“ It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion. ”

- Kevin Patterson

“ Let us go in; the fog is rising. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Revolutions are not made, they come. ”

- Wendell Phillips

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

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- Grover Cleveland

“ Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ You say you want a revolution, Well, you know, we all want to change the world... But when you talk about destruction, Don't you know that you can count me out. ”

- John Lennon

“ In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word "experience" have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible. ”

- Giuseppe Mazzini

“ Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes. ”

- Romano Prodi

“ Vanity made the Revolution; liberty was only a pretext. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Tyranny over a man is not tyranny: it is rebellion, for man is royal. ”

- G. K. Chesterton

“ I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity. ”

- Robert Baldwin

“ For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. ”

- Bible

“ When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you find that more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. ”

- Carrie Snow
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