Rebel Quotes

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

Men, Best, Virtue

What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Albert Camus

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.
Angelina Jolie

Cause, Reckless

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

Faith, Real, Reason

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.
Veronica Lake

Life, Attitude, Pretty

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas Carlyle

Time, Men, Rather

When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
Jim Carrey

Made, Rich, Big

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander Pope

Men, Best, Pride

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. Wells

Nature, Him, Child

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.
Cathy Guisewite

Yourself, Against, Group

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

Life, Woman, Living

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
David Herbert Lawrence

Art, Book, Walk

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

Someone, Law, Against

I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
Elvis Presley

Heart, Times, Knew

The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.
Kate Winslet

Stupid, Children, Whole

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp

Time, Parents, Same

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American?
Henry Louis Gates

Important, Through, Here

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.
Joe Hill

Time, Die, Waste

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!
Kevin Spacey

Heart, Brains, Thirty

Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
Pierre Corneille

Power, Universe, Against

If someone puts too much pressure on me, I will automatically rebel.
Carnie Wilson

Someone, Pressure, Puts

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?
Emma Watson

Money, Freedom, Job

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?
Nicolas Cage

I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.
Anna Paquin

Family, Good, Job

I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.
Ellie Goulding

Time, Teen, Black

I was not cut out to be a rebel.
Gene Tierney

You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.
Roger Daltrey

School, Said, Whatever

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
John Andrew Holmes

Society, Boy, Adult

That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.
Shirley Manson

Yourself, Difficult, Question

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

Nature, Human, Obscurity

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