Rebel Quotes

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.

Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.

So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.

All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one.

One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.

Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.

Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.

The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.

The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this Blonde Angel Image. The rebel in me demanded a new color.

This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.

Just listening to Pac, ain't gon' make it stop A rebel in your thoughts, ain't gon' make it halt If you don't become an actor, you'll never be a factor

To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

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.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground.

I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.

I'm not going to be a rebel and offend anybody, but I'm not going to live in somebody else's image.

Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.

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.

If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.

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.

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

In the '60s, parents were told to let their teens rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.

I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men-white male corporate society. So why wouldnt a woman want to rebel against that?

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.

I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

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.

Women like this kind of rebel image in men because there's a thrill in it, especially for those who are tired and burdened with their lives.

We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

In order to exist, man must rebel.

Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.

Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?

No tame animal has lost less of its native dignity or maintained more of its ancient reserve. The domestic cat might rebel tomorrow.

I always wanted to rebel.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.