(77 quotes found)
“It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.”
Benjamin Franklin
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
Albert Camus
“Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.”
Margaret Lee Runbeck
“A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
“Most of what we object to as misconduct in children is a natural rebellion against the intrusion of an unimaginative adult despotism in their lives”
Floyd Dell
“What is a rebel? A man who says no”
“When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.”
English Proverb
“I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.”
Madonna