Rebel Quotes

When I use the word rebel for the artist, I do not refer to revolutionary or to such things as taking over the dean’s office; that is a different matter. Artists are generally soft-spoken persons who are concerned with their inner visions and images. But that is precisely what makes them feared by any coercive society. For they are the bearers of the human being’s age-old capacity to be insurgent.

~ Rollo May

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

~ Philip K. Dick

The only evidence to the contrary was the mute protest in your own bones, the instinctive feeling that the conditions you lived in were intolerable and that at some other time they must have been different.

~ George Orwell

Nights are rebellious, they only demand the truth

~ Mehek Bassi

Entrepreneurs see the no diving sign and back-up to get a running start.

~ Ryan Lilly

Little known fact: When you get really scared and too many scary things happen at once, you can leave your body. I don’t know if it’s your soul or your consciousness or what, but you can literally float up in the air over your body and watch what it’s doing.

~ Dinah Katt

I never blindly roamed with a team just for the sake of social labeling or fitting in. I was never part of a particular group, scene or tribe. I was friends with everybody. My best friend in high school was prom queen, yet I was voted the biggest nonconformist of my senior class.

~ Suzy Kassem

Save the drama for the queens. Stand alone be a wolf, a rebel, a warrior, a savage, a badass. Be anything but a damn drama queen!

~ Melody Lee

With no doubt Al Hussain was one of the greatest rebels, for correcting the path of rulers who deviated from the right path. He, by his stance honorably acquired martyrdom martyrdom that free people wish to acquire.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Negative people will always be there to stain your pure image with their dirty tongues and brushes, but you'll always remain as white as snow, no matter how high the quality of paint they use.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Baby, you want to talk about what happened, go for it. I’m listening. But you know, I’m no angel, and I’m not finished dancing with the devil. If anyone ever hurts you like that again, there’s nothing I won’t do to protect you. To make sure you’re never hurt again.

~ Cristin Harber

By(e) pen, I've tried my hand at poetry; only to see how boring it is to me. That is, unless I get a chance to destroy each and every piece while doing it as I please.

~ Criss Jami

I rebel, therefore I exist.

~ Albert Camus

I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind of rebel. Helpless, really.

~ Alice Sebold

We are so rebellious that when we die our cells refuse to live a second longer. But our souls they live always....

~ Shawna Mae Lewis

Who rebels with mathematics?

~ Khaled Hosseini

I shrieked like a little girl, which, if you think about it, makes total sense.

~ Dinah Katt

You know how they say that right before you die your life flashes before your eyes? It doesn’t. That is just a notion they came up with for books and movies to make death seem romantic. Here’s what really happens: Your intestines feel like a dishrag that’s being wrung dry and your stomach acts like a balloon when you let the air out of it

~ Dinah Katt

This was a true pants-pooping moment.

~ Dinah Katt

She looked mean, but I think that was her natural resting face.

~ Dinah Katt

I mean, were you born a freak?” I asked. I flinched at my own words. I didn’t mean to be rude it just came out that way. The girl rolled her eyes to me. “I don’t know. Were you born stupid?” Okay, maybe I deserved that. “Yeah, probably.

~ Dinah Katt

I had read once that dumb people didn't know they were dumb. They thought they were just as smart as anybody else. That was a very unsettling thought. What if I was really dumb and didn't know it?

~ Dinah Katt

He didn't mean I couldn't leave, he meant I couldn't leave leave. If he meant I couldn't even take out the trash and had to stay inside all the time, that would result in a vitamin D deficiency and I would get scurvy and turn pale, wither, and die and he would go to jail for child abuse. So, I don't think he meant that.

~ Dinah Katt

Strike two. Add dumb as a box of rocks to the list of why I don't like these guys. I got to my feet, deciding to play nice. After all, they were just poor dumb guys who couldn't help it that there weren't enough brains in their genes.

~ Dinah Katt

Do not go where you don’t belong. I scoffed. That sounded like an invitation if I ever heard one.

~ Dinah Katt

What happened next… well, I'm going to blame it on the fact that I was scared. And I had just flown or fallen or something through about eighty years worth of Time. Or maybe it was the beans. I farted. I farted loud enough that it echoed around the small closet, bounced off all four walls and finally escaped through the open door. At least that's what it did in my mind's eye.

~ Dinah Katt

A stealthy ninja monkey she was not.

~ Dinah Katt

That was when things got weird. You may have thought things were weird already, but this was uber-weird

~ Dinah Katt

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, butthe tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression.Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa,have long expelled her.?Europe regards her like a stranger, and Englandhath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare intime an asylum for mankind.

~ Thomas Paine

Time is a hard-hearted rebel, we cannot fight him or can we beg him to slow down, wait for us or stop, all we have to do is to obey his strict rules, follow him and run, he doesn't get tired, and we musn't get tired too.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Sudah gue bilang: punk is only hibernating, not dead!

~ Adham T. Fusama

Let twelve angels come into being to rule over chaos and the underworld. And look, from the cloud there appeared an angel whose face flashed with fire and whose appearance was defiled with blood. His name was Nebro, which means in translation 'rebel'; others call him Yaldabaoth.

~ Rodolphe Kasser

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

~ Taylor Caldwell

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

~ Henri Nouwen

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

~ Nicolas Cage

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

~ Dhani Harrison

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

~ Thomas Paine

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

~ Cathy Guisewite

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.

~ Walter Isaacson

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.

~ Aristotle