Quotes with rebel

  • Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
  • 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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  • Ben Jonson Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back;
    And is a swelling, and the last affection
    A high mind can put off; being both a rebel
    Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth
    All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion,
    and offereth violence to nature's self.
    Catiline His Conspiracy
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Henry Miller Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Oscar Wilde Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Every woman is a rebel.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Taylor Swift I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
    Taylor Swift
    American singer-songwriter (1989 - )
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  • Bruce Willis I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • Madonna I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Ada Cambridge Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
    Ada Cambridge
    English-born Australian writer (1844 - 1926)
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  • H.G. Wells Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Lawrence Durrell No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Alexander Pope Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Max Percy The priest persuades a humble people to endure their hard lot, a politician urges them to rebel against it, and a scientist thinks of a method that does away with the hard lot altogether.
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  • Albert Camus The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Quentin Crisp The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Aristotle Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Albert Camus What is a rebel? A man who says no.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Ben Shapiro When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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