The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life
It's not rebels that make trouble, but trouble that makes rebels.
Our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past while we silence the rebels of the present.
God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.
So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.
Organization for action will now and in the decade ahead center upon America's white middle class. That is where the power is. . . . Our rebels have contemptuously rejected the values and the way of life of the middle class. They have stigmatized it as materialistic, decadent, bourgeois, degenerate, imperialistic, war-mongering, brutalized and corrupt. They are right; but we must begin from where we are if we are to build power for change, and the power and the people are in the middle class majority.
When bands come from that underground scene and go into the mainstream, people just hate it. And it blows my mind. If you're saying you don't like what pop culture is, then change it. And when someone does make an effort to change it, everyone rebels against it and hates it. You can't win. People just want that division to exist. They don't want that division to go away.
Let's recognize that, the Houthi rebels in Yemen are fully subsidized by Iran.
Civilizations grow by agreements and accomodations and accretions, not by repudiations. The rebels and the revolutionaries are only eddies, they keep the stream from getting stagnant but they get swept down and absorbed, they're a side issue. Quiet desperation is another name for the human condition. If revolutionaries would learn that they can't remodel society by day after tomorrow -- haven't the wisdom to and shouldn't be permitted to -- I'd have more respect for them. . . Civilizations grow and change and decline -- they aren't remade.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy.
The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels.
If I can make it clear that I’m still defying the Capitol right up to the end, the Capitol will have killed me. . . but not my spirit. What better way to give hope to the rebels?
I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them cannot overcome the power of the capital, the male and female tributes will be reaped from their existing pool of victors.
It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.
Do you call the people in Los Angeles in the nineties - do you call them rebels or opposition ? They are rebels. They are not rebels even, they are beheading. This opposition, opposing country or government, by beheading ? By barbecuing heads ? By eating the hearts of your victim ? Is that opposition ? What do you call the people who attacked the two towers on the 11th of September ? Opposition ? Even if they're not Americans, I know this, but some of them I think have nationality - I think one of them has American nationality. Do you call him opposition or terrorist ?
There are no rebels in the cinema business.
