Rebel Quotes and Sayings about Rebel – Inspire Quotes
Rebel Quotes
“Today’s rebel is tomorrow’s tyrant.” —Will Durant
“Everyone has that moment where they just rebel.” —Mia
“The despairing soul is a rebel.” —Joyce Carol Oates
“In order to exist, man must rebel.” —Albert Camus
“Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.” —Indira Gandhi
“It’s not rebels that make trouble, but trouble that makes rebels.” —Ruth Messinger
“If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade.” —Ian MacKaye
“Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.” —Anne Douglas Sedgwick
“When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles.” —Frank Herbert
“Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.” —Oscar Wilde
“Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.” —Colin Powell
“I’ll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.” —Paul Thomas Anderson
“Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.” —Criss Jami
“What hurts me most is poverty, and that’s what led me to become a rebel.” —Hugo Chavez
“I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.” —Sharon Horgan
“The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.” —William Howe
“The difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.” —Sidney Sheldon
“Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.” —Lillian Hellman
“I’ve never really had any barrier to break I guess. I don’t really have anything to rebel against. I’m quite lucky.”
“If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.” —Marie Lu
“Since it’s now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.” —Jean Cocteau
“I’m not going to be a rebel and offend anybody, but I’m not going to live in somebody else’s image.” —Iris Apfel
“You don’t have to burn books, you don’t have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.”
“Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.” —C S Lewis
“The rebel in me never really had died. She just needed some time off and a reason to come back to work.” —Abigail Baker
“You can’t be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.” —Criss Jami
“I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.” —Maya Beiser
“The worst of rebels never arm to do their king or country harm, But draw their swords to do them good, as doctors cure by letting blood.” —Samuel Butler
“The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all.” —Albert Camus
“Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a ‘universal’ without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.” —Chaim Potok
Rebel Quotes and Sayings
“The Earth needs rebels.” —David Icke
“Persecution matures young rebels.” —Han Suyin
“Rebel, renegade, must stay paid.” —KRS-One
“I rebel; therefore I exist.” —Albert Camus
“Every woman is a rebel.” —Oscar Wilde
“I’ve always been in a rebel.” —Donnie Yen
“I was a bit of a rebel.” —Vidal Sassoon
“There are no rebels in the cinema business.” —Beatrice Dalle
“The constellations this year seem unfavourable to rebels.” —Cesare Borgia
“There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.” —Clint Eastwood
“America is a land of creators and rebels.” —Jose Marti
“I was a real rebel. I got expelled.” —Katie Price
“He barks out a laugh. “My little rebel.” —R.L. LaFevers
“What is a rebel? A man who says no.” —Albert Camus
“I would rather be a rebel than a slave.” —Emmeline Pankhurst
“I was not cut out to be a rebel.” —Gene Tierney
“Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.” —Jonathan Winters
“I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.” —Angelina Jolie
“If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.” —C. L. R. James
“You’re only a rebel from the waist downwards,’ he told her.” —George Orwell
“If You Want To Rebel against Society, Don’t Dull the Blade.” —Ian MacKaye
“Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.” —Indira Gandhi
“I didn’t rebel in the way a lot of people do.” —Josh Turner
“Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.” —Mario Balotelli
“It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.” —Taylor Caldwell
“Let them call me rebel, I feel no concern from it.” —Thomas Paine
“Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.” —Anne Douglas Sedgwick
“My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work.” —Arthur Conan Doyle
“I didn’t rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing.” —Billy Crystal
“If someone puts too much pressure on me, I will automatically rebel.” —Carnie Wilson
“When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles.” —Frank Herbert
“In my heart I’m independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.” —Nicole Kidman
“The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded.” —Philip Kearny
“While my dad is a rebel at heart, I am a conformist.” —Vivaan Shah
“Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.” —Eric S. Raymond
“Robert Pattinson is rebel cool incarnated — the James Dean of the undead.” —James Wolcott
“I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing.” —Leighton Meester
“I’ll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.” —Paul Thomas Anderson
“We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.” —Richard Dawkins
“The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.” —William Saroyan
“Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels.” —David Ogilvy
“I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn’t even rebel as a teenager.” —Emily Watson
“That’s a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.” —Shirley Manson
“As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.” —Thomas Browne
“In general, I’m not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.” —Chip Conley
“Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.” —Criss Jami
“Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional.” —Elsa Peretti
“I do things in my own way, but I’ve never felt any need to rebel.” —Emma Watson
“What hurts me most is poverty, and that’s what led me to become a rebel.” —Hugo Chavez
“No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.” —Lawrence Durrell
“Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.” —Philip Sidney
“I wouldn’t say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn’t right at school.” —Emmanuelle Beart
“It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.” —Phyllis McGinley
“I love it when the director says, ‘Rebel, just do whatever you want.’ I’m, like, ‘Yes.” —Rebel Wilson
“Don’t murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial.” —T. B. Joshua
“To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.” —Uta Hagen
“What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.” —Albert Camus
“Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.” —Edward Abbey
“What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I’ve always rebelled against theory.” —Mark Knopfler
“So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.” —Ray Bradbury
“I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.” —Sharon Horgan
“The crypto currency community hasn’t decided whether they want to be anarchist rebels or to replace the establishment.” —Adi Shamir
“Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents’ music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.” —Dan Auerbach
“It takes more than going down to the video store and renting “Easy Rider” to be a rebel.” —Dennis Hopper
“There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.” —Frank Herbert
“Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels, or anyone who just dares to be different.” —Hunter Hayes
“Unwillingness to accept God’s ‘way of escape’ from temptation frightens me – what a rebel yet resides within.” —Jim Elliot
“Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.” —Lillian Hellman
“Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras? There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore.” —Richard Engel
“Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels.” —Henry David Thoreau
“He was, after all, the ultimate rebel — it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.” —Jasper Fforde
“The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.” —Nick Nolte
“Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.” —Russell Brand
“You made a rebel of a careless man’s careful daughter. You are the best thing that’s ever been mine.” —Taylor Swift
“We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream, and we won’t let this world die without a fight.” —Albert Camus
“We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.” —C. S. Lewis
“If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.” —George Bernard Shaw
“It’s pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.” —Simone Elkeles
“You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot.” —Eartha Kitt
“I’ve never really had any barrier to break I guess. I don’t really have anything to rebel against. I’m quite lucky.” —Emma Watson
“Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual ‘rebel,’ kicking against the ‘old colonialism-imperialism paradigm’ which has landed Africa in a conundrum.” —George Ayittey
“One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.” —Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
“My idol was Sandino, and also Christ. I was brought up a Christian, but I regarded Christ as a rebel, a revolutionary.” —Daniel Ortega
“I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.” —Dhani Harrison
“I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean’s films; I could watch Rebel without a Cause a hundred times over.” —Elvis Presley
“I’m kind of in between a goody-goody and a rebel. I’m not bad, but I’m not good either. I’m a little crazy.” —Michelle Wie
“Be neither a conformist nor a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it.” —Paul Vixie
“The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill.” —Woodrow Wilson
“You never hear in the news, ‘Two hundred killed today when atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the agnostic stronghold in the north’.” —Doug Stanhope
“There must be some point, at which the lawyer’s own personal and social morality will rebel against his traditional allegiance to his client.” —Harry Jones
“Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.” —Richard Stallman
“Oh sons of Arabs and the Arab Gulf, rebel against the foreigner…Take revenge for your dignity, holy places, security, interests and exalted values.” —Saddam Hussein
“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.” —James A. Baldwin
“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.” —Walter Isaacson
“True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.” —Yevgeny Zamyatin
“By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons.” —Frederic Farrar
“Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.” —Niels Bohr
“In the ’60s, parents were told to let their teen’s rebel, explore their boundaries. Increasingly the same message is being given to the parents of tweens.” —Maggie Gallagher
“I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.” —Maya Lin
“I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He’s the biggest. He’s like an Elvis in this business, but no, he’s never been the rebel.” —Waylon Jennings
“Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel without a Cause had a very powerful effect on me.” —Al Pacino
“He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.” —Ryszard Kapuscinski
“The thing about fashion – it’s like ducks going quack, quack quack. It’s being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.” —Sara Blakely
“We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.” —Yoweri Museveni
“To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.” —Dean Koontz
“Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student.” —Sania Mirza
“What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.” —Laurence Steinberg
“The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.” —Quentin Crisp
“A Libyan rebel has admitted to killing Moammar Gadhafi. He said he shot Gadhafi twice in the temple, to which Michele Bachmann said, “I didn’t even know the guy was Jewish.” —Jay Leno
“The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.” —Edward Abbey
“Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I’m living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you’re a woman.” —Joan Jett
“I always was a rebel…but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted…and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, and musician. But I cannot be what I am not.” —John Lennon
“I didn’t do anything differently than what my father was doing. It’s a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.” —Justin Townes Earle
“Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with – I still do – but to me a rebel isn’t so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.” —William Petersen
“The ancients, even though they believed in destiny, believed primarily in nature, in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one’s head against a wall.” —Albert Camus
“I really never break the rules. I’m not scared to say what I think or if I really disagree with something then I’ll say it, but I’m not kind of like a born rebel.” —Emma Watson
“Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.” —Alaa Al Aswany
“But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.” —Elias Hicks
“Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope, And God Save–as you prefer–the King or Ireland. The land of scholars and saints: Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush, Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints.” —Louis MacNeice
“We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.” —Les Aspin
“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.” —Suzanne Collins
“When I was younger, I just thought that my plans were probably going to be more exciting than my parents’ plans or the establishment. I sort of got by on being a little bit of a rebel.” —Amy Grant
“Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.” —Clarence Darrow
“The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.” —Erich Auerbach
“Although I never lack the presence and plain image of my own wretched infirmity, yet seeing sin so manifestly abounds in all estates, I am compelled to thunder out the threatening of God against the obstinate rebels.” —John Knox
“He would still see it as his duty to shut up and get on with it, not cause any trouble. In our own time we’ve made a hero of the rebel, and it’s more heroic to speak up.” —Eddie Campbell
“My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.” —Kelly Brook
“It is the cruelest of all ironies that moderns imagine themselves to be (abstractly understood) “individuals,” because in actuality moderns are “types,” abstracted and self-abstractive victims of a process of stereotyping that afflicts even would-be rebels and anarchists.” —Kenny Smith
“It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.” —E. M. Forster
“Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Man can serve his age or rebel against it, but the target of his cooperation or rebellion comes to him from outside.” —Stanislaw Lem
“Pity for these inhabitants, I have none. In the first place, they are rebels, and I am almost prepared to agree with Sherman that a rebel has no rights, not even the right to live except by our permission.” —Charles Fessenden Morse
“What do we need all that for?”If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good. I firmly believe Rebel without a Cause is such a picture.” —James Dean
“A lot of teenagers, when they’re in the business, they want to rebel, because they’ve been so tied up and stuff. I’m not too tied up. I like to have fun. I just don’t see myself getting out of control.” —Justin Bieber
“Whenever you have to deal with a boy who is a rebel, remember that you must not fail at some time or other to get him to face the question, are you going to be a fighter or a quarreler.” —Kurt Hahn
“So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.” —Archie Shepp
“Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.” —Georg Solti
“I’m going to join them”, he said. And he did. When Sveva fled, Rath stayed and fought with the rebels. And died with them, right there at the toes of the mountains. And was dragged with them into a big pile.” —Laini Taylor
“Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still “covert adolescent rebels.” In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general.” —Virgil Miller Newton
“Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economized is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak.” —Henry Adams
“The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.” —Gary Hamel
“Hell was not part of the original creation. Hell is God’s fall-back position. Hell is something God was forced to make because people chose to rebel against him and turn against what was best for them and the purpose for which they were created.” —Lee Strobel
“Will we rise to the challenge and prove our capacity for genuine altruism by ending our ruthless exploitation of the species in our power, not because we are forced to do so by rebels or terrorists, but because we recognize that our position is morally indefensible.” —Peter Singer
“If there’s been any use of nerve gas it’s the rebels that used it. If there has been a use of chemical weapons it was Al-Qaeda that used the chemical weapons – who gave al-Qaeda the chemical weapons? Here’s my theory, Israel gave them the chemical weapons.” —George Galloway
“That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It’s a person who dares to love something that isn’t conventional.” —Felicia Day
“I love Rebel Rebel in Manhattan’s West Village for vinyl, but record stores are hard to come by these days. I almost don’t even use iTunes. I mostly use music subscription services. But I’ll go into Rebel Rebel once a month or so and buy everything I love on vinyl.” —Jason Sellards
“It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can’t break.” —Patrick McGoohan
“Come! Let us lay a lance in rest, And tilt at windmills under a wild sky! For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry.” —John Galsworthy
“Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life … The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave’s prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.” —Ernest Renan
“The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there must be something vital to rebel against and if the elderly stiffly refuse to put up a vigorous front of their own, it leaves the entire situation in a mist.” —Jane Addams
“We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. … While everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue.” —Etty Hillesum
“I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would be comprehensible like the deeds and gestures of monarchs recorded day after day in official communiques. Six months of a life cannot catalogue the vitality, the activity of an individual; only death stops development and then, what is important is the overall meaning of a life, not the details of that life, edifying to some, scandalous to others.” —Louis Aragon