Rebel Quotes

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)
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. View quote
Thomas Paine
I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause. View quote
Angelina Jolie
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
The village is 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 Number Six and will live there happily as Number Six for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break. View quote
Patrick McGoohan
What is a rebel? A man who says no. View quote
Albert Camus
Goodbye Bill. I die like a true blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize. View quote
Joe Hill
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him. View quote
H. G. Wells
As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. View quote
Clarence Darrow
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. View quote
Chaim Potok
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 student? (Sania Mirza)
I rebel - therefore we exist. View quote
Albert Camus
I'm a real rebel with a cause. View quote
Nina Simone
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. View quote
Joan Jett
Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that. View quote
Veronica Lake
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. View quote
William Petersen
The rebel is committed to giving a form and pattern to the world. It is a pattern born of the indomitable thrust of the human mind, the mind which makes out of the mass of meaningless data in the world an order and a form. View quote
Rollo May
I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my grandfather Muhammad. I intend to enjoin good and forbid evil, to act according to the traditions of my grandfather, and my father ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib. View quote
Husayn ibn Ali
When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders. (Dorothy Day)
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. View quote
Jane Addams
He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory. View quote
Mark Knopfler
Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self. View quote
Ben Jonson