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Rebellion Quotes

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they can’t become conscious.

– George Orwell

1984. Part 1, Chapter 7. Winston writes about the Catch-22 situation concerning the proles and rebellion. He seems to feel they will never gain the consciousness needed for them to rebel.

What then must we do? Why, work night and day, body and soul, for the overthrow of the human race! That is my message to you, comrades: Rebellion!

– George Orwell

Animal Farm. Chapter 1. Old Major urges the animals to rise up against their human masters.

It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.

– H. L. Mencken

When I was a boy, I was sagging my pants like everyone else. Some boys become men and continue to sag their pants because that’s their form of rebellion.

– Jidenna

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that’s available to us as Christians.

– Joyce Meyer

The worst… was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

– Iris Chang

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

– Benjamin Franklin

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

– Albert Camus

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

– Albert Camus

Telling everyone I wanted to go into forensic anthropology was my form of rebellion.

– Bryce Dallas Howard

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

– Barbara Ehrenreich

The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.

– Algernon Sidney

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

– Andrea Dworkin

It’s both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

– Amy Tan

Bon Jovi’s trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.

– Michael Azerrad

Everything in horror film is about transgression, and the young audience wants to touch something that is forbidden and is, by function, anti-establishment. It is a way for young audiences to express rebellion and also to deal with very modern fear but in a very playful way, in a very symbolic way.

– Christophe Gans

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

– Edwin Louis Cole

When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.

– Pete Wentz

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

– Marianne Faithfull

The first mention of a ‘ranger’ is as early as 1622, during the 1622 Powhatan rebellion, a near-successful effort to drive the British out of what is now Virginia.

– Greg Grandin

There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy.

– Edward Everett

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

– Charles Inglis

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

– George Henry Lewes

I finished ‘American Born Chinese’ in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion.

– Gene Luen Yang

Learning is always rebellion… Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

– Margaret Lee Runbeck

Rebellion is obsolete – change things from the inside working out.

– Mark Mothersbaugh

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

– George Orwell

Baseball was socially relevant, and so was my rebellion against it.

– Curt Flood

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

– David Byrne

When I looked into the lives of the Chinese saints, I discovered that many of them had died during the Boxer Rebellion, a war that occurred on Chinese soil in the year 1900.

– Gene Luen Yang

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