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Quotes About Rebellion

It's about time you did your own thing and stopped just listening to whatever Queen Margot says.
~ Jenny Han
How dare he say I need to grow up? What does he know about anything? As if he's so mature!
~ Jenny Han
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple. With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
~ Jenny Joseph
But maybe I ought to practise a little now? So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
~ Jenny Joseph
Warning, When I'm An Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple!
~ Jenny Joseph
But lately I'm like a beatnik in a movie. Fuck this bourgeois shit, baby! Let's be pure of heart again!
~ Jenny Offill
You know what's punk rock about marriage? Nothing. You know what's punk rock about marriage? All the puke and shit and piss.
~ Jenny Offill
Fuck this bourgeois shit, baby! Let's be pure of heart again!
~ Jenny Offill
Sometimes I find myself having little conversations in my head with the punk rock kids upstairs.
~ Jenny Offill
Psalm 106:24, 25: 'Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word; but murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the Lord. Therefore he lifted up his hand against them to overthrow them in the wilderness.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
Submit not to any decree or other act of power, of the justice of which you are not yourself perfectly convinced. If a constable call upon you to serve in the militia, shoot the constable and not the enemy. If the commander of a press-gang trouble you, push him into the sea. If a bailiff, throw him out of the window. If a judge sentence you to be imprisoned or put to death, have a dagger ready, and take a stroke first at the judge.
~ Jeremy Bentham
Do they think that, if left to our own devices, we'd all park on zebra crossings for a year? If they do, it means they don't trust us. And if they don't trust us, then the relationship has broken down and it's time for some civil unrest.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
Peace is found when people stand for morality and reject culture. Defend freedom at all costs and at all times and peace will rule the world instead of tyrants.
~ Jeremy Locke
Once I catch a serious FUCK IT wave, I ride that thing right up to the sand. "Sand" might be a loose metaphor for "point where I'm almost dead and filled with the kind of regret you have to actively forget in order to continue on as a human being.
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
One man against a corrupt system and I knew I could win! And Hindsight would like to point out I wasn't even on the really hard drugs yet. I'd
~ Jeremy Robert Johnson
Go ahead, God, you fat, filthy motherfucker, lightning-bolt my ass into oblivion if you're so tough!
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
I love eating chicken with my bare hands. It makes me want to snarl at people, even more than usual.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
Why should I strive to swim against the current, and not rather ask pardon?
~ Jerome
After a while the introvert develops strong extraversive needs; the man whose life has been governed exclusively by thinking craves in time the guide of feeling; the literal man searches eventually for ways of intuiting. So with the principal actors within the human character. Their rebellious understudies, if I may so designate them, are often of opposite persuasion.
~ Jerome Bruner
Sin, in the final analysis, is rebellion against the sovereign Creator, Ruler, and Judge of the universe. It resists the rightful prerogative of a sovereign Ruler to command obedience from His subjects. It says to an absolutely holy and righteous God that His moral laws, which are a reflection of His own nature, are not worthy of our wholehearted obedience.
~ Jerry Bridges
all sin without distinction — is lawlessness.
~ Jerry Bridges
Sin is not only a series of actions, it is also an attitude that ignores the law of God. But it is even more than a rebellious attitude. Sin is a state of heart, a condition of our inmost being. It is a state of corruption, of vileness, yes, even of filthiness in God's sight.
~ Jerry Bridges
God's government is perfect and just. His moral law is "holy, righteous and good" (Romans 7:12). No one ever has a valid reason to rebel against the government of God. We rebel for only one reason: We were born rebellious. We were born with a perverse inclination to go our own way, to set up our own internal government rather than submit to God.
~ Jerry Bridges
The atonement was God's extending favor to people who deserved not favor but wrath. The atonement was God's bridging the awful "Grand Canyon" of sin to reach people who were in rebellion against Him. And He did this at infinite cost to Himself by sending Jesus to die in our place.
~ Jerry Bridges