Rebel Quotations | Page 3

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me... but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?

I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.

The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music.

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.

I was a bit of a rebel.

Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception. There is no reason why we should not rebel in a large way too.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

It's not rebels that make trouble, but trouble that makes rebels.

I really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.

I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.

As for that footage, video footage showing the dead children allegedly killed in the chemical attack, it is horrible. The question is only who did it and what they did, and who is responsible for this. These pictures do not answer the questions I have just posed. There is an opinion that it's a compilation by these very rebels, who are connected with al-Qaida and who were always distinguished by exceptional brutality.

The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.

Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

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

We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.

Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.

Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes

In America, every time we take rebels, whether it's in Iraq or anywhere else, we're arming people. And you know what happens? They end up being worse than the people.

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall.

In order to exist, man must rebel.

I rebel; therefore I exist.

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

There's a rebel lying deep in my soul.

They stick you with those names, those labels -- rebel or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.

You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.

There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.

Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.

Every woman is a rebel.

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

All women are rebels.

I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion.

My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.

I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.

The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.

Let them call me rebel, I feel no concern from it.

I'm the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.