"If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat"
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"When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles"
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"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."
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"For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer."
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"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."
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"What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation."
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"True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life"
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"You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her."
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"I do things in my own way, but I've never felt any need to rebel."
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"It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules."
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"I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against."
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"Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory."
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"We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms."
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"Why these people who want to do so much good for everyone, who call themselves government and this and that, why them say you must not use the herb? You see, them say you must not use the herb because it makes you a rebel. Against what?"
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"We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight."
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"To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century."
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"Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against."
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"Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?"
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"Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel."
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"But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time."
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