Quotes About Rebellion

The great popular insurrections that broke out from time to time in Russian history show that the peasant, even at his most rebellious, tended to preserve a loyalty to the tsar or to the idea of being ruled by a tsar.

The "humiliating regime" undoubtedly contributed something to the transformation of seminarian Djugashvili into a revolutionary. But other factors were also involved, among them the fact that rebellion had already become a tradition in the seminary.

As he went out into the world, writes Iremashvili, he took with him "a grim and bitter hatred against the school administration, the bourgeoisie, and all that existed in the country and represented tsarism.

It was one of those situations where you just say fuck it. Fuck the job, fuck management.

The leader who tries to change the group's spirit directly—yelling, demanding, disciplining—actually plays into the teenage dynamic and reinforces the desire to rebel.

actively rebel against those forces that have pushed you away from your true path.

Daily Law: If you're on the false path, get off. Find energy in rebellion. Mastery, I: Discover Your Calling—The Life's Task

For every famous martyr there are thousands more who have inspired neither a religion nor a rebellion, so that if martyrdom does sometimes grant a certain power, it does so unpredictably.

Understand this: The world wants to assign you a role in life. And once you accept that role you are doomed.

Somos criaturas que no soportan sentir que obedecen a una voluntad ajena. Si tus objetivos lo descubrieran, tarde o temprano se volverán contra ti.

He felt a sudden exultation in his singularity. Well, damn the world for its superstition.

How much longer, Catilina, will you try our patience

normalcy is overrated: most normal people are assholes".

He remembered a line of graffiti scrawled by White Rose on a wall near Werderscher Markt: 'A police state is a country run by criminals'.

Elayne, she said softly as they resumed their climb, if we are caught, I swear that before they kill us, or do whatever they do, I will beg them on bended knees to let me stripe you from top to bottom with the stoutest switch I can find!

You cannot make the land go against itself. Not for long; the land will rebel. You must shape the vision to the land, not the land to the vision.

Lord Rand, Nynaeve snorted. That young man is growing too big for his breeches. When I get my hand on him, I'll lord him.

You cannot make the land go against itself. Not for long; the land will rebel.

No," he said, softly, yet more firmly. More dangerous. "I will not see another person chained by your foul leashes." "Foul? They are the only way to deal with those who can channel!" "We have survived without them for centuries." "And you have—" "This is not a point I will concede," al'Thor said.

His final words were reported to be, "Kiss my ass.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates. —MARK TWAIN

I was an outsider who seemed more interested in attacking what was being taught than learning from it.

and he sees that what he is talking about can never really be accepted here because to see it one has to be free from social authority and this is an institution of social authority.

When you are trained to despise "just what you like" then, of course, you become a much more obedient servant of others—a good slave. When you learn not to do "just what you like" then the System loves you.