Rebel Quotes

I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.

I'm not really the quiet type, although some people think I am. But I'm the rebel type in the sense that I don't think I'm like everyone else. I try to be an individual.

Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.

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.

It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people.

In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.

He barks out a laugh. "My little rebel.

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.

I was a bit of a rebel.

While my dad is a rebel at heart, I am a conformist.

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

I am a rebel, and I relate to the rebel spirit in Chenault [from the Rhum Dairy].

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

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.

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.

Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.

Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don't accept.

That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].

If the rebels or the terrorists in this region or any other group have [chemical warfare], this could happen, I don't know. I'm not a fortuneteller to tell you what's going to happen.

If the American administration want to support Al-Qaeda - go ahead. That's what we have to tell them, go ahead and support Al-Qaeda, but don't talk about rebels and free Syrian army.

We are worried that rebels are taking control in many countries, and look at the results now. Are you satisfied as an American ? What are the results ? Nothing. Very bad - nothing good.

When I think about the idea of Rebel Wilson having to go to the Oscars and not having something amazing to wear that's made for her, it drives me mad.

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

I think school is so important. I was good student. A rebel, but I did well in my studies. I don't close myself to anything. I liked reading and I still love learning. I loved history and German.

I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.

If someone puts too much pressure on me, I will automatically rebel.

Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.

You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.

I need to rebel against myself. It's the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.

I confess to getting quickly bored by one style of expression, and I like to experiment with all different sorts of modes. I rebel against familiar tools.

Teach your kids to make deplorable choices and hopefully they'll rebel and make the right ones.

In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut. I have a baby and then you send him off to war. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.

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.

I couldn't really be a part of high school, because I have a terrible time doing things that I don't want to do. I'm not good at it. It's not even like, I'm a rebel. I'm just bad at it, you know?

I think a lot of people were like, "Oh, you're 13, you're gonna rebel." But I was never in public school and I was never really forced to do much of anything, as a kid.

Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me!

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.

I've never really had any barrier to break I guess. I don't really have anything to rebel against. I'm quite lucky.

I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.

Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.

[Donald] Trump suggesting to "The Wall Street Journal" that he would stop aiding the rebels fighting [Bashir] Assad.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

I am the fool in this story, and no rebel shall hurl me from my throne.

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.