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Quotes About Rebellion

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
~ Alexander Pope
When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.
~ Theodore Parker
"Diiiie men." If you play any Broad City episode backwards, that's all we're saying.
~ Ilana Glazer
We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.
~ Jimmy Buffett
Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.
~ John Carroll
Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.
~ Kabir
Seriously, I don't care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I'd follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.
~ Kristen Ashley
I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.
~ Charlie Sheen
God sinks into dust before man.
~ Max Stirner
A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.
~ Raymond Carver
When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'
~ Rip Torn
In order to exist, man must rebel.
~ Albert Camus
It's not like we wanted to get really political in terms of specific causes, but I think a lot of the lyrics deal with paranoia and feeling like "the man" is in control somehow.
~ Andrew VanWyngarden
I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
He seemed wild and dangerous and carefree--well, he would, would'nt he? What were motorcycles and black leather pants if not the uniform of a wild, dangerous and carefree man?
~ Marian Keyes
To be a man is to be a nonconformist.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's the bad child of the universe
~ James Oppenheim
Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.
~ John Selden
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery
~ Jonathan Mayhew
All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities
~ Romain Rolland
Break into Alton Towers! I would… break into McDonalds. And I would kiss everyone. On the lips… before I left the world. I mean, man and female.
~ Tom Meighan
Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.
~ William Powell
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
~ Charles Horton Cooley