These quotes on rebellion by eminent personalities project the power of mass disobedience. Surf through the article for some famous revolt quotations and sayings.
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A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed.
At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
I'll probably be punished for hard living.
“I heard people say, 'Why would he want to do this?' My answer is 'Why not?' It is what I love. It's what I know.”.
Vote early and vote often.
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
Society, being codified by man, decrees that woman is inferior; she can do away with this inferiority only by destroying the male's superiority.
Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
Has God forgotten all I have done for Him.
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
There's no such thing as an original sin.
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