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Quotes About Rebellion

Be mad enough, his father once said, and they will either lock you away or make you a saint.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Your mother didn't give birth to you, I told hint, but farted you out of her shrivelled arsehole. Frightened or not, Asser said, you've taken Peredur's silver, so you must fight them now. Say one more word, monk, I said, and I'll cut off your scrawny balls.
~ Bernard Cornwell
It was the year 878, I was twenty-one years old and believed my swords could win me the whole world. I was Uhtred of Bebbanburg, the man who had killed Ubba Lothbrokson beside the sea and who had spilled Svein of the White Horse from his saddle at Ethandun. I was the man who had given Alfred his kingdom back and I hated him. So I would leave him. My path was the sword-path, and it would take me home. I would go north.
~ Bernard Cornwell
This time, if God wills it, we shall replace him. A man bitten by a snake once does not let the snake live a second time.
~ Bernard Cornwell
I ignored Waldhere and still spoke
~ Bernard Cornwell
So you settle to be a slave, eh? Yes, lord, no, lord, let me hold your prick while you piss all over me, lord?
~ Bernard Cornwell
and told that if I disobeyed then the sorceress
~ Bernard Cornwell
I was without a lord. I was outcast. I was free. I was going Viking.
~ Bernard Cornwell
It's hard to force obedience without encouraging resentment.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Because I'm tired of Wessex,' I said, 'tired of priests, tired of being told what your god's will is, tired of being told that I'm a sinner, tired of your endless damned nonsense, tired of that nailed tyrant you call god who only wants us to be miserable.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Boredom with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
~ Bernard Crick
She is not for you. She is a wild one--wild, without shame. This is not a bride for a rabbi.
~ Bernard Malamud
Thou wanton: dost thou dare call me noodle?
~ Bernard Shaw
Toda generación tiene el deber de rechazar lo que sus padres esperan de ella. En
~ Bernhard Schlink
Our nominal morality has been formulated by priests and mentally enslaved women. It is time that men who have to take a normal part in the normal life of the world learned to rebel against this sickly nonsense.
~ Bertrand Russell
I have spoken hitherto of those who command and those who obey, but there is a third type, namely, those who withdraw. There are men who have the courage to refuse submission without having the imperiousness that causes the wish to command. Such men do not fit readily into the social structure, and in one way or another they seek a refuge where they can enjoy a more or less solitary freedom.
~ Bertrand Russell
Power is naked when its subjects respect it solely because it is power, and not for any other reason. Thus a form of power which has been traditional becomes naked as soon as the tradition ceases to be accepted. It follows that periods of free thought and vigorous criticism tend to develop into periods of naked power.
~ Bertrand Russell
But in the 'nineties young men desired something more sweeping and passionate, more bold and less bland.
~ Bertrand Russell
Fiecare mare idee porneÅŸte cu o blasfemie.
~ Bertrand Russell
Religion has existed since before the dawn of history, while science has existed for at most four centuries; but when science has become old and venerable, it will control our lives as much as religion has ever done. I foresee the time when all who care for the freedom of the human spirit will have to rebel against a scientific tyranny.
~ Bertrand Russell
Not everyone in a stronghold of sin is having a good time. Many people who by the grace of God have never been "had" by the devil wrongly assume that all departures from godliness are nothing but defiance, rebellion, and proofs of inauthenticity They have no idea of the suffering involved when someone with a genuine heart for God slips from the path.
~ Beth Moore
Keep Your servant from willful sins; do not let them rule over me. Then I will be innocent, and cleansed from blatant rebellion. Psalm 19:13
~ Beth Moore
1. God hears the cry of the oppressed. He even hears the cries of those whose oppression is a result of sin and rebellion.
~ Beth Moore
They would not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation whose heart was not loyal. Psalm 78:8
~ Beth Moore