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In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.

Revelation without a relationship produces rebellion.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. It was a force for siding with the oppressed and a rebellion against hierarchical, ancient societies. Now it's institutionalized and all the life has been sucked out of it.

Submission to the Scriptures is submission to God. Rebellion against the Scriptures is rebellion against God

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

The future will be the child of the past and the present, even if a rebellious child.

The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil.

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

Well, these tattoos aren't really rebellion. These tattoos are all tattoos I've had since I have been a pastor.

To me, Satan ultimately represents rebellion.

When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

When your thoughts and opinions become intellectual gods in rebellion against the Word of God, you are in idolatry.

According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the definition of the word ‘rebellion’ is ‘an act or a show of defiance toward an authority or established convention. Extensions of the expression include to fly in the face of danger and to fly in the face of providence, both of which carry a sense of reckless or impetuous disregard for safety.’ Because we did not grow up with our fathers, we became reckless with our lives and disregarded the lives of others as well. Therefore, the problem is not the gangs, so to speak; rather, it’s the conditions that create them. It is the dismantling of our homes and marriages that create the right conditions for gangs to flourish. If homes could be put back together or prevented from falling apart, then these symptoms could be, root cause eradicated.

Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotten.

Cherish your existence, for memories become legacies and life can change in an instant.

Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.

Clinton had displayed his lifelong tendency to make enemies of all his superiors, who never seemed to appreciate his advice as much as he thought it deserved.

Cleaving to the authority...will not protect your family...Those who lie down meekly in a civil war are always the first to be trampled.

Come to think of it, the Senate sessions had been quieting for a while. The boisterous beginnings she remembered as a tiny child had become more subdued later on, the stillness falling so gradually that Leia had missed it until now. Had the senators forgotten that they still held some authority? That they were one of the few forces standing between Palpatine and absolute power? They couldn't afford to become passive in the face of resistance; that was when they needed to bear down and work harder...

Coming-of-age tales and villain origins have a lot in common. Teens are fighting for their independence and against familial pressures. Villains are frequently fighting against societal and moral expectations in their origins.

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

Cowards parade around me calling me weird, calling me paranoid then, calling me for help.

Crafting a novel on cotton rag paper with an antique fountain pen is a sensuously rebellious act against modernity.

Dacă tai în două un om prost, n-o să găsești sânge, ca la noi. O să găsești păreri. Are păreri despre orice, în special despre lucrurile de care n-are habar. Cu cât nu înțelege ceva, cu atât părerea lui va fi mai înverșunată. Și cu părerile astea trebuie să facă ceva, trebuie să le arate lumii. A căzut un camion într-o prăpastie? Păi, hai, ce faci, ce mai pierzi vremea? Spune cu cine ții: cu camionul sau cu prăpastia?

Dad, she's just going to freak. And probably come here and get me, and then you guys will start yelling at each other, and I'll have to act out by wearing lots of eyeliner and doing the drugs

Death despises bartering. Yet this king of Death was the greatest barterer of us all. He bartered with our lives, dreams, hopes, and prayers—he used them to control us. And he would continue to so long as we allowed him. But today, if only for me, he would stop. He wouldn’t win.

Death is going to take the boundaries away from us, that we should no more be persons. That's what death is about. When that is what life also wants to be about, how can you feel except rebellious?

Desire cannot be tamed. That’s what the King told me the first time I was here. Well, King. You should see how untamable love makes you.

Disorder, disobedience & rule breaking are features of all my stories.

Disrobe both conformity and rebellion to find true independence.