Rebel quotes
306 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"God's love is so extravagant and so inexplicable that he loved us before we were us. He loved us before we existed. He knew many of us would reject him, hate him, curse him, rebel against him. Yet he chose to love us. God loves us because he is love."
"We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms."
"I'm a real rebel with a cause."
"Every woman is a rebel."
"I rebel; therefore I exist."
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"Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels."
"If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system."
"Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms."
"What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel."
"I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause."
"What is a rebel? A man who says no."
"All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues."
"I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that."
"Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself."
"Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel."
"Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change."
"Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me."
"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."
"Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35)"
"There's a rebel lying deep in my soul."
"If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat"
"When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles"
"Above all, we must understand that in leaving the toxic ways of the present we are healing ourselves, our places, and our planet. We rebel not as a last act of desperation but as a first act of creation."
"For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer."
"The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The superstructure of society ordains the type of art in which the artist has to be educated. Rebels are subdued by its machinery and only rare talents may create their own work. The rest become shameless hacks or are crushed."
