On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.
Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
Rebellion never goes without consequences.
Not only is true love rare and true rebellion rare, real love is itself a radical form of rebellion - engagement, thinking, and being - and therefore happens in the context of a larger project of justice, liberation, and critical thinking.
You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.
The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.
Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
There are two kinds of rebellion. The first is one in which the slave demands something that the tyrant has got. The second is one in which he demands something that the tyrant has not got.
These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slavery - in fact, its only enemy.
I think perhaps I touch on a different passion in people. It’s not simple the passion of rock ‘n’ roll rebellion - it’s more romantic than sexual.
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
Congress shall never disarm any citizen unless such as are or have been in actual rebellion.
Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s.
With rebellion, awareness is born
When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.
It seems like the rebellions never stop, in the city, in the compound, anywhere. There are just breaths between them, and foolishly, we call those breaths “peace".