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There is a inner freedom that comes from defiance … In every act of rebellion we are free. Chris Hedges, lecture The Sanctuary for Independent Media, New York, 10 November 2017
Those rebels who rise up to try to wrest back power from despotic forces will endure not only the violence of the state, but the hatred and vigilante violence meted out by the self-deluded victims of exploitation. The systems of propaganda will relentlessly demonize those who resist. Chris Hedges, The Illusion of Freedom, 2015
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. Thomas Paine
Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself. Cathy Guisewite
Bird: Hey, Johnny, what are you rebelling against?
Brando: Whata you got? The Wild One 1953 starring Marlon Brando & Mary Murphy & Robert Keith & Lee Marvin & Jay C Flippen & Peggy Maley & Ray Teal & Hugh Sanders & John Brown et al, director Laslo Benedek
When all your right become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours ... then surely it is a braver, a saner and truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men. Robert Casement, statement at Old Bailey trial
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. Robert A Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
We are faced with open rebellion. The Belles of St Trinians 1954 starring Alastair Sim & Joyce Grenfell & George Cole & Hermione Baddeley & Betty Ann Davis & Sid James et al, director Frank Launder, Ms Fritton
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory. Russell Brand
The man [Manet] was a rebel through and through. Waldemar Januszczak, Manet: The Man Who Invented Modern Art, BBC 2013
We started a rebellion about the Klingon-Cardassian alliance. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s3e19: Through the Looking Glass, alternative O’Brien to Sisko
The peasantry had had enough: they rose up in the largest mass rebellion in English history and marched on London. This was a class war. Dr Janina Ramirez, Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years War II: Breaking the Bonds 1360-1415, BBC 2013
The ringleaders of the uprising were hunted down and hanged. ibid.
There’s got to be some kind of a rebellion between the people that have nothing and the people that’s got it all. I don’t understand. There’s no in-between no more. There’s the people that’s got it all and the people that have nothing. Randy Hacker, cited Capitalism: A Love Affair
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. Barbara Ehrenreich
And I just think that it’ll take a little time for kids to start doing the duties that they’re supposed to do, which is challenge things, like corruption. Kurt Cobain, recorded interview 1992, often paraphrased as ‘The duty of youth is to challenge corruption’
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing. Thomas Jefferson, letter 1787
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson motto
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. Albert Camus, The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
What is a rebel? A man who says no. Albert Camus
I rebel; therefore I exist. Albert Camus
There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds. Albert Camus
In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself – limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist. Albert Camus
With rebellion awareness is born. Albert Camus
Rebellion lay in his way, and he found it. William Shakespeare, I Henry IV V i 28
Unthread the rude eye of rebellion,
And welcome home again discarded faith. William Shakespeare, King John V iv, Melun
Let us sing the song of the rebels:
Rebels are we
Born to be free
Just like the fish
In the sea. Bananas 1971 starring Woody Allen & Louise Lasser & Carlos Montalban & Natividad Abascal & Jacono Morales & Miguel Angel Suare & Rene Enriquez & Jack Axelrod & Howard Cosell & Roger Grimsby & Don Dunphy & Charlotte Rae et al, director Woody Allen, rebel leader’s ditty; & Sleeper 1973 starring Woody Allen & Diane Keaton et al, Diane Keaton’s ditty
I hear it’s San Marcos. The CIA’s not taking any chances this time – some of us are for, and some of us are going to be against him. ibid. troops on plane
I am still an Irish rebel to the backbone and the spinal marrow, a rebel for the same reason that John Hampden and Algernon Sidney, George Washington and Charles Carrol of Carroltown, were rebels – because tyranny had supplanted the law. Charles Gavan Duffy 1816-1903, on arriving Australia
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. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. Apple Inc
True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done. Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation. I have a reverence for individuality. Clint Eastwood, Wild Open Spaces: Why We Love Westerns
Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that’s a tough call. That’s real rebellion. Alice Cooper
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. Dwight D Eisenhower
Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle. Edmund Burke
The Earth needs rebels! David Icke