Quotes About Rebellion

The rebel with no specific gift for rebellion is destined to become the drone; and even this metaphor is inexact, since the drone has at least a small chance of fecundating the queen, whereas the human rebel-drone is deprived even of that small chance and may finally see himself as totally sterile, lacking not only the brilliant life-success of the queens but even the humble satisfactions of the workers in the human hive. Such

a personality is reduced to mere wax, a mere receiver of impressions; and this condition is the very negation of the basic drive in him—to rebel. It is no wonder that in middle age many such failed rebels, rebels turned self-conscious drones, aware of their susceptibility to intellectual vogues, adopt a mask of cynicism that cannot hide their more or less paranoiac sense of having been betrayed by life." ' While

Prima ancora del suo primo disastroso matrimonio, si ricordava d'aver seguito con ardore le ribellioni dell'Irlanda, e le cause di divorzio di donne che cercavano di liberarsi da uomini che odiavano. Avevano un bel da dire i parroci che la libertà spirituale e corporale son cose affatto diverse! Perniciosa dottrina, quella! Il corpo e l'anima non si possono separare in tal modo. La libera volontà costituisce la forza di ogni legame, e non la sua debolezza.

And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!

Much to the concern of her parents, she began skipping church. They were devout Methodists who never missed a Sunday. Indeed, few people in their part of the world missed church and those who did were talked about.

Judith insisted he attend some crunchy little granola academy where all plastic is forbidden and all the teachers wear thick wool socks and old sandals.

She had not raised her daughter to live such a life; in fact, Debbie had been raised in the church. After high school, though, she began partying and keeping later hours.

Go where?" Todd asked, rubbing his eyes. "To jail, ass face. Let's go.

Why couldn't he spend a few months fishing for trout in shallow mountain streams instead of sitting through dull classes, or driving to Whitfield for another depressing visit, or worrying about which legal hijinks Burch Dunlap might be cooking

They justified their taking up arms against their queen by claiming they had already obtained the damning evidence

oust a legitimate government in alliance with its rebels could be justified.

Between October 19 and 23, the rebel lords did the unthinkable.

Mary alone insisted on wearing a white gown.

the Earl of Atholl's men and those of the Laird of Tullibardine cried out, "Burn the whore!

Lennox was furious with his son, who had brought all his plans of the past twenty years to the verge of catastrophe.

On this the young Mary asserted herself, adamantly refusing to be detached from the main body of the court for very long.

Within a year, the cardinal's estimates were shown to be woefully inadequate, and Parois was up in arms.

He had led the lords who deposed Mary's mother eight years before

In particular, he urged his sister to crush the Protestants, whom he regarded as political insurgents.

Already several of the lords were defecting from Moray and joining her camp.

what Moray and the rebel lords had done was unconscionable

Mary was not blamed by Elizabeth for causing this, the most serious rebellion of her reign—at least not yet.

She turned next to Moray's base in Fife, cutting his supply lines.

The Catholic lords intended to join with the Protestants to resist the forfeiture of the rebels