Rebellion Quotes

All of their faces are cluttered with the shrapnel of rebellion, as if a grenade of alienation has exploded in their midst, piercing every possible soft point of flesh-from earlobes and nostrils to eyebrows, lips, and tongues-with metal studs and rings.

~ Jonathan Tropper

...but maybe it's just the genetic code of a teenager. If your parents forbid something, you have to want it.

~ Brynna Gabrielson

A man's only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.

~ Pat Conroy

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist.

~ Albert Camus

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

~ Charles Inglis

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

~ Brooke Shields

Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.

~ Thomas Jane

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

~ George Henry Lewes

The Declaration of Independence was to set forth the moral justification of a rebellion against a long-recognized political tradition - the divine right of kings.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

~ Emmeline Pankhurst

I think every girl has a little bit of rebellion inside. It's always fun to not follow every trend and not be the perfect good girl. It's edgy to be a little rebellious.

~ Behati Prinsloo

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

~ Benjamin Franklin

There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.

~ Zac Efron

I guess rebelliousness has been explored in many movies, but what about the smart kids' rebellion? Not just the motorcycle jackets and that kind of rebellion; it's the dorky kid - what could he do?

~ Portia Doubleday

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

~ George Orwell

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

~ Linus Torvalds

Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.

~ Mike Barnicle

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

~ Henry Knox

Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

~ Taylor Swift

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

~ Amy Tan

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

~ Alice Walker

My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.

~ Nathaniel Kahn

I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.

~ Kara Walker

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

~ Albert Camus