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Quotes About Rebellion

This machine kills fascists.
~ Woody Guthrie
No. I cannot let him control me.You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet.
~ Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
Let us go forth and unconquer the world!
~ Tom Althouse
They're terrified of us Firefly, all of them are.""Well, good, " I replied, forming a tiny ball of flames in my fingertips, which were curled round the handle on the back of the bike. "They should be.
~ Heather James, Fire
I've had enough, this is my prayer, that I'll die living just as free as my hair.
~ Lady Gaga
You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
~ Jim Morrison
The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.
~ William O. Douglas
Do you know what she did? Your cunting daughter?
~ William Peter Blatty
For an instant, Karras throbbed with a surge of rebellion, with a dull, weary anger at the piling on of weight upon weight.
~ William Peter Blatty
I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
~ William Pitt (Earl of Chatham)
One lesson of the Luddite rebellion specifically, and the Industrial Revolution generally, is that maintaining the prosperity of those closed communities—their pride in workmanship as well as their economic well-being—can only be paid for by those outside the communities: by society at large.
~ William Rosen
In 528, still the crown prince, not yet king, Khusro discovered that his father's Mazdakite allies were conspiring against the throne. Driven, perhaps, by a combination of loyalty, anger, and a desire to demonstrate a kingly sort of resolution, in 529 the prince arrested, tortured, and executed Mazdak, and followed up with a massacre of his followers. (The Mazdakites would one day serve as inspiration for Islam's dissident Shi'a.)
~ William Rosen
Some guard these traitors to the block of death, Treason's true bed and yielder up of breath.
~ William Shakespeare
Unhand me, gentlemen,By heaven! I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.
~ William Shakespeare
Away, you scullion! you rampallian! you fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe.
~ William Shakespeare
'Tis a naughty night to swim in.
~ William Shakespeare
O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellious hell,If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones,To flaming youth let virtue be as wax,And melt in her own fire: proclaim no shameWhen the compulsive ardor gives the charge,Since frost itself as actively doth burn,And reason panders will.
~ William Shakespeare
This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy,This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;Regent of love-rimes, lord of folded arms,The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,Liege of all loiters and malcontents.
~ William Shakespeare
Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,And welcome home again discarded faith.
~ William Shakespeare
Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em;Thought is free.
~ William Shakespeare
Thou art the Mars of malcontents.
~ William Shakespeare
Thou deboshed fish thou.
~ William Shakespeare
Never yet did insurrection wantSuch water-colors to impaint his cause.
~ William Shakespeare
There's such divinity doth hedge a king,That treason can but peep to what it would.
~ William Shakespeare