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Quotes About Rebellion

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.
~ John Perry Barlow
God put the physical world under a curse so that the physical horrors we see around us in diseases and calamities would become a vivid picture of how horrible sin is. In other words, physical evil is a parable, a drama, a signpost pointing to the moral outrage of rebellion against God.
~ John Piper
Most people don't feel conscious hostility to God. The hostility is manifest more subtly with a quiet insubordination and indifference.
~ John Piper
In other words, physical evil is a parable, a drama, a signpost pointing to the moral outrage of rebellion against God.
~ John Piper
People lift their hand to rebel against the Most High only to find that their rebellion is unwitting service in the wonderful designs of God.
~ John Piper
Throughout the history of the world, government leaders have chosen to imprison persons who opposed their rule. That bears repeating. Throughout the history of the world, government leaders have chosen to imprison persons who opposed their rule.
~ John Price
In the end times God will allow a rebellion against Himself led by Satan's man, the Antichrist, a/k/a the Mahdi. In His infinite wisdom, planning, and perfect timing, God will allow mankind to bring an end to the present age, which will lead to the millennium, a thousand years in which Jesus Christ will rule and reign from the Temple in Jerusalem. For further interest in this subject, refer to Antichrist: Islam's Awaited Messiah (Joel Richardson, Winepress Publishing, 2007).
~ John Price
even the heart rebels-finally against its own anarchy. And that's the most powerful rebellion.
~ John Rechy
IN the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt….
~ John Reed
In the heated atmosphere after the Lincoln assassination, quite a few northerners compared Lee to the infamous John Brown, the abolitionist who was captured, tried, and hanged for the Harper's Ferry raid in 1859. Brown had been found guilty of treason against the state of Virginia after a jury deliberated for only forty-five minutes...Coincidentally, it had been Colonel Robert E. Lee of the US Army that eventually put down John Brown's short-lived rebellion at Harper's Ferry.
~ John Reeves
We are a rock 'n' roll band. We always were. We have heavy-metal hair so you can see why so many people put us in there with that. They've got no brains these people who categorise you. They are at these award ceremonies – here is an asshole who is taking your money on false pretences and he's getting the award on the unanimous decision of all those cunts who never buy records and get into gigs free (laughs).
~ John Robb
They said that we would be down and out on heroin. The success was a fuck you. There's a lot of fuck you-ness about me – my basic fuck you-ness has survived.
~ John Robb
The reasons: • They think it's funny. • They take perverse satisfaction out of upsetting adults. • Sometimes they get what they want when they misbehave. • Rebelling against authority gives them a sense of power. • They often get a lot of attention when they misbehave. • They discover that they can control certain people and situations by misbehaving.
~ John Rosemond
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.
~ John Ruskin
Fuck golf anyway. Stupid goddamn game, chasing a ball around a perfectly good cow pasture.
~ John Sandford
Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
~ John Selden
Beaten armies always shout, "TREASON!
~ John Taliaferro
Our form of compulsory schooling is an invention of the State of Massachusetts around 1850. It was resisted — sometimes with guns — by an estimated eighty percent of the Massachusetts population, the last outpost in Barnstable on Cape Cod not surrendering its children until the 1880s, when the area was seized by militia and children marched to school under guard.
~ John Taylor Gatto
School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Never bow to the wicked. Never obey the command of someone who is unworthy.
~ John Twelve Hawks
Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
~ John V. Lindsay
I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!
~ John Waters
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.
~ John Waters
I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!
~ John Waters