Rebellion proverbs

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◆ The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.

- Banksy99

◆ 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

- Rachel Hawkins99

◆ Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

- Albert Camus99

◆ Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

- Tom Robbins99

◆ Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

- Russell Brand99

◆ So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

- Ray Bradbury99

◆ And if we burn, you burn with us.

- Suzanne Collins99

◆ Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n.

- John Milton99

◆ I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

- Wendell Berry99

◆ The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.

- Jeffrey Eugenides99

◆ Being classy is my teenage rebellion.

- Rebecca McKinsey99

◆ Humans have evolved to their relatively high state by retaining the immature characteristics of their ancestors. Humans are the most advanced of mammals – although a case could be made for the dolphins – because they seldom grow up. Behavioral traits such as curiosity about the world, flexibility of response, and playfulness are common to practically all young mammals but are usually rapidly lost with the onset of maturity in all but humans. Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

- Tom Robbins99

◆ Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

- Philip K. Dick99