Rebellion Quotes
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"Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?""Yes,"said Harry stiffly."Yes, sir.""There's no need to call me "sir"Professor."The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying."
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."
"You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity."
"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."
"You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real."
"You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful."
"There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion."
"The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature."
"We are so rebellious that when we die our cells refuse to live a second longer. But our souls they live always...."
"There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headfirst into the abyss of the revolution."
Kelsey Brickl, Wolves and Urchins: The Early Life of Inspector Javert
"Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?""Yes," said Harry stiffly."Yes, sir.""There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying."
"If we neither regard the deeds nor respect the works of God, it leads to rebellion."
"We ask, ‘Why the need for God?’ Maybe the better question is ‘Why the need not to need Him?’ And could it be that that question in fact evidences our need for Him?"
"You ruin is your rebellion against God."
"Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth."
"Hope?" She eyed Cassian dubiously. "Is that the best the Rebel Intelligence can do?" Cassian might as well have shrugged. "Rebellions are built on hope," he said"
"The biggest act of rebellion right now is remaining defiantly hopeful."
"For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism."
Alister E. McGrath, Mere Apologetics: How to Help Seekers and Skeptics Find Faith
"For the first time in my life, I'm doubting my faith, and it terrifies me.For the first time, I want to change the rules. For the first time I wonder: does it matter what it says on your skin, when what's at stake is your soul?"
"Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader."
"When there’s darkness, there are all kinds of evil things happening, rebellion is there, and corruption is operating."
"Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts."
"Man rejection of the Truth is the root of his rebellion."
"If you feel like you don't fit into the world you inherited it is because you were born to help create a new one."
"To completely understand me you must first accept that I am not you."
"My dream is to create something so beautiful that it encourages people to present the best version of themselves to me everywhere I go."
"Eternity will not cause our memories to fade, it will force our hearts to accept the past."
"To struggle against the weight of sleep as reality eclipses the moon of your dreams is the purest sign of true love."
"Cherish your existence, for memories become legacies and life can change in an instant."
"Try to think of it as though we are rewriting history––the first time this experience occurred you and I never kissed in this Dream Machine room. But now when we leave here, and open our eyes again near the wall around the center of Constance, that kiss will be included in our memories of the day we first met. We could spend a lifetime recreating this moment here, meanwhile, not a single second of our lives would slip by back in our reality. Time seems to move differently inside of our memories."
"As her feet beat the concrete ground beneath them, her chest began to ache. It had been a long time since she had run at a full sprint. She was, quite literally, running for her life, and leaving everything she had known before behind. Regardless of her past experiences, here she was, blindly following a girl, who was virtually a stranger, because she had promised to lead Eleanor to safety."
"Here we go,” Phoenix said, turning back to Nora. “Try not to let this room scare you."
"Every decision you make in life will stem from one of two options: love or fear. Choose love."
"...it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone else into the same ridiculous mould. It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity."
"[Hegel’s] system of nature seemed, at least to natural philosophers, absolutely crazy….Hegel…launched out with particular vehemence and acrimony against the natural philosophers, and especially against Isaac Newton. The philosophers accused the scientific men of narrowness; the scientific men retorted that the philosophers were insane."
Hermann von Helmholtz, Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays
"So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily."
"The old disease, thought Rubashov. Revolutionaries should not think through other people's minds. Or, perhaps they should? Or even ought to? How can one change the world if one identifies oneself with everybody? How else can one change it? He who understands and forgives -- where would he find a motive to act? Where would he not?"
"Finally, I realised that No One, howsoever you may consider dearest to you, will never mend their ways to appeal you, for they will only follow their own nature. Accept it! You may like it or dislike it. The irony is in the process there may be phases in individual’s lives where their actions/ behaviour may appease you, but that’s never to be misunderstood that they have changed for you. From an evolutionary psychology standpoint, that’s a rebellious attitude that shapes our society!"
"Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we still can, then maybe one of your children may elect to do so in the future, when it will be far more riskier — and much, much harder."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"And if we burn, you burn with us."
"All is changed, changed utterlyA terrible beauty is born"
"You help us, they’ll lock you up for the rest of your life."
"they were forbidden words, laced with the fear of transgression and sin."
"I’m not a rebel. I was sent here to protect, not to harm."
"Oh, the child you threatened once, the young shoot you stepped on, the Tamil you teased, is standing with a gun in front of you. His presence is taking you by surprise. How can you understand that it is the occupier who creates a poorali? You once dealt the blow. Now you are imprisoned. When a fox tries to eat the goat, the goat must turn into a tiger and leap. That is the edict of the times."
"Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement."
"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent."
"So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice."
"It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid enough not to know that you can't possibly win, so you're the only ones who can lead us to victory! Take it back!"
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