Quotes about Rebellion

Judas sought regeneration through revolution, instead of revolution through regeneration.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

On the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

A man must consider what rich realms he abdicates when he becomes a conformist

Wherever a man comes, there comes a revolution. The old is for slaves.

Transcendentalists have been accused of being rebels and rule-breakers. But if they disregard society's customs and laws, it's because they're listening to conscience and obeying the Law Maker within. There are situations where virtue asks us to break the rules.

An obedient man is free when in prison," Quan said. "A disobedient man is imprisoned when free.

Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms." —C. S. Lewis