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  When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Topics in Justice, Politics, Service

  Tags in Reform, Rebellion, War, Duty, Conscience

• I’m not really rebellious. People think I am, but I’m not.

  Tom Sizemore

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rebellious, Rebellion

• There was a point when I was so sick of this physical perfection thing that I thought it would be good for all young girls to eat burgers and sweets as a rebellion but I don’t think that anymore because it’s not healthy.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rebellion, Sweets

• I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Rebellion

• To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

  Brian Hugh Warner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rebellion

• The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

  Frederick Douglass

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rebellion, Thing

• It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rebellion

• A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mental, Rebellion

• Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

  George Orwell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mental, Rebellion

• Job’s avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it’s strictly because God is so powerful, and you don’t fight something when you are so much weaker than that which you would fight.

  George C. Williams

  Topics in God

  Tags in Rebellion, Against

• Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

  Bernadette Devlin McAliskey

  Topics in Achievement, Success

  Tags in Rebellion, Courage

• If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

  Abigail Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Rights, Injustice, Feminism, Rebellion, Women, Law

• Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.

  Paul Weyrich

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rebellion, Teeth, Kick

• Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Belief, Risk

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Rebellion, Reform, Change/Growth, Curiosity, Opinion, Faith, Philosophy

• Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rebellion, Oppression, Tyranny, Freedom

• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rebellion, Disobedience, Virtue

• A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

  Seneca the Younger

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Rebellion, Reason

• Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Human Rights, Injustice, Rebellion, Reason

• I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security – out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.

  John Steinbeck

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rebellion, Security

• Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Rebellion, Desert, Like