1.
I would rather be a rebel than a slave.
Emmeline Pankhurst
I would rather defy than surrender.
2.
But while Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible. There is no word strong enough for it. I am pledged as a rebel, an unconvertible rebel, to the one thing - a free and independent Republic.
Constance Markievicz
3.
You never hear in the news, "200 killed today when Atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the Agnostic stronghold in the north."
Doug Stanhope
4.
We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue.
Etty Hillesum
5.
God's love is so extravagant and so inexplicable that he loved us before we were us. He loved us before we existed. He knew many of us would reject him, hate him, curse him, rebel against him. Yet he chose to love us. God loves us because he is love.
Judah Smith
6.
We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.
C. S. Lewis
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Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.
Joan Jett
8.
Don't murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial.
T. B. Joshua
10.
We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.
Les Aspin
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I’VE ALWAYS BEEN A REBEL. I NEVER DO THINGS THE WAY THEY’RE SUPPOSED TO BE DONE. EITHER I GO IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION OR I CREATE A NEW DIRECTION FOR MYSELF, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE RULES ARE OR WHAT SOCIETY SAYS.
Grace Jones
13.
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
Taylor Caldwell
17.
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
Eric S. Raymond
18.
If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.
William Allen White
19.
Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.
Karl Marx
20.
If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.
Marie Lu
21.
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
C. S. Lewis
22.
It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.
Dennis Hopper
23.
What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.
Hugo Chavez
24.
Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.
William Petersen
25.
Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.
Paul Vixie
26.
Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretched
infirmity, yet seeing sin so manifestly abounds in all estates, I am
compelled to thunder out the threatenings of God against the obstinate
rebels.
John Knox
27.
I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.
Angelina Jolie
28.
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
Uta Hagen
31.
If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade
Ian MacKaye
32.
All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues.
Tracy Lawrence
33.
The Christian is a holy rebel loose in the world with access to the throne of God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
34.
I think when you sit alone with your brain too much, your own brain starts to rebel against you.
Christopher Titus
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Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes
Colin Powell
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Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or other to get him to face the question, Are you going to be a fighter or a quarreller?
Kurt Hahn
37.
I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.
Maya Lin
38.
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
Niels Bohr
39.
It's not rebels that make trouble, but trouble that makes rebels.
Ruth Messinger
40.
The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.
William Saroyan
41.
Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different.
Hunter Hayes
42.
We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
Yoweri Museveni
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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
Oscar Wilde
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I'm kind of in between a goody-goody and a rebel. I'm not bad, but I'm not good either. I'm a little crazy.
Michelle Wie
45.
Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.
Edward Abbey
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Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.
Indira Gandhi
48.
What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.
Mark Knopfler
49.
That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.
Felicia Day
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The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation.
Juan Manuel Santos