Quotes about Rebellion
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
— William Faulkner
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
— St. Augustine
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
— George Eliot
So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.
— Herman Melville
When we recognize the rod of a father, should we not show ourselves docile children rather than rebelliously desperate men who have been hardened in their evil doings?
— John Calvin
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
— George H. W. Bush
Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.
— Walt Whitman
Nobody controls me. I'm uncontrollable. The only one who can control me is me, and even that's barely possible.
— John Lennon
Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.
— Joyce Meyer
The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.
— Bob Marley
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
— Albert Einstein
Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
— Erica Jong