Quotes Tagged "rebellion"

Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.

You are evidence of your mother's strength, especially if you are a rebellious knucklehead and regardless she has always maintained her sanity.

The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.

There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.

Fight the System ---------------------- In the realm of words we crossed borders of countries that we may never be able to visit in the surreal dream of the world our words created, idealism and integrity still survived we fought against injustice; we who went against the odds just as David fought Goliath; we did against the system! - Avijeet Das

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

Will you walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.

...and we'll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

I trust contrariness. ... I simply rebelled at being commanded.

God pursues us. He pursues us in our brokenness. He pursues us in our mishaps. Despite our rebellion or resistance, He pursues us to the very end.

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have and did not have when you made your first communion. It was a feeling of consecration to a duty toward all of the oppressed of the world which would be as difficult and embarrasing to speak about as religious experience and yet it was as authentic as the feeling you had when you heard Bach, or stood in Chartres Cathedral or the Cathedral at León and saw the light coming through the great windows; or when you saw Mantegna and Greco and Brueghel in the Prado. It gave you a part in something that you could believe in wholly and completely and in which you felt an absolute brotherhood with the others who were engaged in it. It was something that you had never known before but that you had experienced now and you gave such importance to it and the reasons for it that you own death seemed of complete unimportance; only a thing to be avoided because it would interfere with the performance of your duty. But the best thing was that there was something you could do about this feeling and this necessity too. You could fight.

In a democracy, when freedoms are threatened; tyranny must stare down the barrel aimed at the revolutionary rebellion.

Rebellion isn’t something one sought or fought but merely born with

When there’s darkness, there are all kinds of evil things happening, rebellion is there, and corruption is operating.

Man rejection of the Truth is the root of his rebellion.