Quotes about Rebellion
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
— Samuel Beckett
Th' eternal eye, whose sight discerns Abstrusest thoughts, from forth his holy mount,And from within the golden lamps that burn Nightly before him, saw, without their light, Rebellion rising.Milton'sParadise Lost,b. v.
— Samuel Johnson
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
— John Barrymore
For in our own day we see many who are stupid enough to be so overcome by the mere title of "the church," that they take sides with the pope, and would be damned forever rather than raise a finger against his authority.
— John Calvin
All have been blind to the light, deaf to admonitions, and hardened against the commandments.
— John Calvin
Satan accuses God of falsehoods of envy, and of malignity, and our first parents subscribe to a calumny thus vile and execrable.
— John Calvin
For this, Love is enraged with me; Yet kills not. If I must example be To future rebels, if the unborn Must learn by my being cut up and torn, Kill and dissect me, Love; for this Torture against thine own end is: Racked carcasses make ill anatomies
— John Donne
Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
— Winston Churchill
I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.
— Martin Luther
The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
— Elton John
Hey, mister, I don't think so. You go outside and yell at sky, you so angry.
— Rainbow Rowell