Rebels Quotes

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Women, Men, May

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Work, Mind, Give

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists.
Bill Maher

Country, Free, Sheep

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

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke

Policy, Principle, Kings

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
Thurgood Marshall

Men, Power, Government

The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.
Charles Bronson

Fear, Anger, Betrayal

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
Emile M. Cioran

Almost, Slave, Rarely

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Fear, Wisdom, Humble

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
Isabel Allende

Heart, Books, Ask

The Earth needs rebels!
David Icke

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Fear, Humble, Pride

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

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

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

Against, Took, Level

I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing.
Leighton Meester

Rules, Guys, Appealing

Young people are not only rebels. They have a special heart.
Gloria Trevi

Heart, Special, Young

The Conservative Party is not honouring the commitment to Lords reform and, as a result, part of our contract has now been broken. Clearly I cannot permit a situation where Conservative rebels can pick and choose the parts of the contract they like, while Liberal Democrat MPs are bound to the entire agreement.
Nick Clegg

Cannot, Broken, While

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
Harold Ramis

Win, Play, Else

This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized.
Lupe Fiasco

Nation, Against, Status

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it?
Robert Dale Owen

Power, Government, Give

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.
Jack Bowman

Good, School, Problem

Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought.
Charles Bronson

Betrayal, Thought, Understand

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
Eric S. Raymond

Against, Themselves, Liked

There are no rebels in the cinema business.
Beatrice Dalle

Business, Cinema

Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.
Henry Villard

Strong, End, Enough

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.
Brian Harvey

Music, Wanted, Write

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

Fight, Used, Force

It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people.
Peter Oliver

Said, Support, Quota

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

Food, Medical, Help

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