"I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel."
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"When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions."
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"I was a bit of a rebel."
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"I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done."
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"To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it."
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"Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors."
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"He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we've made a hero of the rebel, and it's more heroic to speak up."
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"I do things in my own way, but I've never felt any need to rebel. To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?"
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"I've never really had any barrier to break I guess. I don't really have anything to rebel against. I'm quite lucky."
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"I really never break the rules. I'm not scared to say what I think or if I really disagree with something then I'll say it, but I'm not kind of like a born rebel."
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"If someone puts too much pressure on me, I will automatically rebel."
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"So time passes, and a much more political rather than literary reasoning intervenes, and from the day that [Albert] Camus wrote The Rebel, in 1955, there comes the rupture, and all, nearly all of the left wing intellectuals become hostile to him. Since he was already unfavourably viewed by the right-wing, he found himself entirely alone."
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"You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired."
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"When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents' plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel."
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"The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the rebels. If Robert E.Lee had stayed with his country the story would have been different."
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"Youth to itself rebels, though none else near."
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"The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill."
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"You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine."
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"I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life."
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"It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents."
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