Definition of Rebel

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Definition of Rebel

Rebel

Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops.

One who rebels.

To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion.

To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt.

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Rebel Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rebel Translations

rebel in Afrikaans is rebel
rebel in Danish is rejse sig
rebel in Dutch is oproerling, muiter, rebel
rebel in Finnish is kapinoida
rebel in French is cabrer, rebelle
rebel in Italian is ribelle, indignare
rebel in Latin is insurgo insurgi insurrectum
rebel in Spanish is rebelde

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