Quotes about Rebellion

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.

Tyrannical governance is unjust, since it is ordered to the private good of the ruler, not to the common good . . . And so disturbance of such governance does not have the character of rebellion . . . Rather, tyrants, who by seeking greater domination incite discontent and rebellion in the people subject to the them, are the rebels.

Surely, no one who believes in an all-good God, who wants all to do good, could consistently claim that God gave Lucifer the desire to rebel against Him. Perish the thought!

And then she said to herself, brandishing her sword at life, nonsense.

Killing the Angel in the House was part of the occupation of a woman writer.

Never had any boy begged apples as Orlando begged paper; nor sweetmeats as he begged ink. Stealing away from talk and games, he had hidden himself behind curtains, in priest's holes, or in the cupboard behind his mother's bedroom which had a great hole in the floor and smelt horribly of starling's dung, with an inkhorn in one hand, a pen in another, and on his knee a roll of paper.

Yes, but I still resent the usual order. I will not let myself be made yet to accept the sequence of things. I will walk; I will not change the rhythm of my mind by stopping, by looking; I will walk.

Oliver Twist has asked for more!

I am not at all respectable, and I don't want to be. Odd perhaps, but so it is!

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

We are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud.