Quotes About Rebellion

If I'm O.K., I will abandon restrictions and curbs imposed on myself. Not physical ones, but those restrictive tabs on my inner being, on solely myself. I will strip me of superficial dishonesties. I will paint against every rule I or others have invisibly placed.

She was brought up in the reformed Protestant Church but left it at the age of seventeen in protest against its restrictive rules.

Losing self-control, some in Punjab, he said, had taken to violence; losing self-respect, others had obeyed the Crawling Order.

There's always an element of crime in freedom.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure. And therefore a man must know how to estimate a sour face. The by-standers look askance on him in the public street or in the friend's parlour. If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own, he might well go home with a sad countenance; but the sour faces of the multitude, like their sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and a newspaper directs.

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

For nonconformity the world whips you with its displeasure.

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

Live no longer to the expectation of these deceived and deceiving people with whom we converse.

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.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these [158] have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces we are disconcerted.

Whence is your power? From my nonconformity. I never listened to your people's law, or to what they call their gospel, and wasted my time.

I must really be crazy, now—because craziness is where everybody agrees about something,—except you!

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