Rebellion

(240 votes)   For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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(147 votes)   Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(109 votes)   Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.

Martin Luther
1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation

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(108 votes)   The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner

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(97 votes)   It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

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(94 votes)   The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, -- you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, -- I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(93 votes)   Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

Scottish Proverbs
Sayings of Scottish Origin

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(93 votes)   When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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(88 votes)   I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against.

Madonna
1958-, American Musician, Singer, Actress,

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(82 votes)   Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.

Giuseppe Mazzini
1805-1872, Italian Patriot, Writer

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(79 votes)   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 -- he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(72 votes)   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. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

Thomas Jefferson
1743-1826, Third President of the USA

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(65 votes)   A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political Writer, Statesman

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(62 votes)   I'm totally going through a rebel period right now. It's sort of waning, but ... ach, I'm allowed, right? It's OK, right?

Claire Danes
1979-, American Actress

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