Quotes about Rebellion
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
— Abbie Hoffman
The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness.
— Charles Finney
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
— CS Lewis
When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.
— John Milton
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
— GK Chesterton
Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his Throne
— Charles Spurgeon
This is teenage madness.
— Travis Thrasher
The Mexican war made three presidential candidates, Scott, Taylor and Pierce—and any number of aspirants for that high office. It made also governors of States, members of the cabinet, foreign ministers and other officers of high rank both in state and nation. The rebellion, which contained more war in a single
— Ulysses S. Grant
There was no time during the rebellion when I did not think, and often say, that the South was more to be benefited by its defeat than the North. The latter had the people, the institutions, and the territory to make a great and prosperous nation. The former was burdened with an institution abhorrent to all civilized people not brought up under it, and one which degraded labor, kept it in ignorance, and enervated the governing class.
— Ulysses S. Grant
In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.
— Victor Hugo
And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old régime became the new régime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!
— Victor Hugo
Gavroche added: I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack.
— Victor Hugo