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"The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice."
"So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily."
"The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed."
"How do you rebel in a family of rebels?"
"I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world."
"Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave."
"I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager."
"A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering."
"Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so."
"The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall."
"It is right to rebel against reactionaries."
"It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave."
"I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him."
"There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself."
"There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same."
"From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is."
"A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments."
"Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief."
"Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress."
"It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people."
