"All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale."
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"A little rebellion is a good thing."
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"Rebellions of the belly are the worst."
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"I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God."
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"if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?"
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"What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?"
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"His puppyhood was a period of foolish rebellion. He was always worsted, but he fought back because it was his nature to fight back. And he was unconquerable."
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"I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it."
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"The questioning spirit is the rebellious spirit. A rebellion is always either a cloak to hide a prince, or the swaddling wrapper of a new rule."
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"Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue."
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"With rebellion, awareness is born"
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"Every rebellion implies some kind of unity."
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"Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love."
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"In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe."
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"The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society."
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"Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary."
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"It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace"."
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"The only justification of rebellion is success."
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"Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law."
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"The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom."
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