Rebellion Quotations | Page 2

Don't want that, do they?” She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn't want anything like that!

Just the perfect touch of rebellion," says Haymitch "Very nice." Rebellion?

The only justification of rebellion is success.

Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.

It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace".

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

With rebellion, awareness is born

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

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?

Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Successful rebellions always begin in secret.

Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.