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Quotes About Rebellion

Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you?
~ Richelle Mead
A little revolution is a good thing.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I'll write whatever I damn please, whenever I damn please and as I damn please and it'll be good if the authentic spirit of change is on it.
~ William Carlos Williams
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.
~ Emiliano Zapata
People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.
~ Yuri Kochiyama
The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.
~ Max Stirner
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
~ Jim Hightower
There's never been a good government.
~ Emma Goldman
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.
~ Chuck D
I've set my own rules to live by. The first one is: 'Never believe ANYthing the government says.'
~ George Carlin
People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
~ Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.
~ Benjamin Franklin
These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.
~ Lysander Spooner
If any person has a good word for the previous government that is good enough for me to have him shot.
~ Che Guevara
If the Sri Lankan government resorts to state oppression against the Tamils and Muslims, then we will fight.
~ Velupillai Prabhakaran
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
~ Alexander Herzen
Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
~ Wendell Phillips
I don't bow down to the federal government.
~ Joe Arpaio
The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.
~ Giacomo Casanova
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.
~ Lysander Spooner
Go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Go back to bed America... you are free to do as we tell you... you are free to do as we tell you.
~ Bill Hicks
A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.
~ William Powell