Quotes about Rebellion
Stand up for the Crazy and Stupid
— Walt Whitman
Let your barbaric yop be heard through the rooftops!
— Walt Whitman
This is what you should do: Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, Argue not concerning God, Have patience and indulgence toward the people... Reexamine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, Dismiss what insults your very soul, And your flesh shall become a great poem.
— Walt Whitman
Authority in the world is being increasingly undermined until at the end all authorities will be overthrown and lawlessness shall rule.
— Watchman Nee
Any action which lacks in obedience is a fall, and any act of disobedience is rebellion.
— Watchman Nee
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers...
— Aldous Huxley
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman. But an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any force.
— Dorothy Sayers
I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
— Jack Kerouac
If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.
— Henry David Thoreau
Like most parents, Gloria and I had to deal with the problems of rebellion in our children. We realized that it had to be stopped quickly before it developed into a serious situation.
— Kenneth Copeland
It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. - Oscar Wilde (Chuck Palahniuk - Pygmy)
— Oscar Wilde
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. In art, as in politics, there is but one origin for all revolutions, a desire on the part of man for a nobler form of life, for a freer method and opportunity of expression
— Oscar Wilde