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Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself. -- Cathy Guisewite
In conformity with these designs on the city of Washington, and notwithstanding the disastrous results of the invasion of 1862, it was determined by the Rebel government last summer to resume the offensive in that direction. -- Edward Everett
Rebel, renegade, must stay paid. -- KRS-One
Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves. -- Bruce Catton
I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause. -- Angelina Jolie
If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don't Dull The Blade -- Ian MacKaye
The Rebel bullet that can kill me has not yet been molded. -- Philip Kearny
The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory. -- Russell Brand
... Rebel against the flesh and bone, The word of the blood, the wily skin, And the maggot no man can slay. -- Dylan Thomas
I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over. -- Elvis Presley
Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance. -- Richard Stallman
You can't save the world...save YOUR heart. Be a catalyst & create a life where you are powerful. Rebel. Be happy & allow others happiness. -- Andy Biersack
Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so. -- David Bowie
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so. -- Aristotle
Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death. -- Samuel Adams
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. -- H. G. Wells
Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me. -- Al Pacino
When I think about the idea of Rebel Wilson having to go to the Oscars and not having something amazing to wear that's made for her, it drives me mad. -- Beth Ditto
Fat bodies are used comically. I respect Rebel Wilson so much, and Melissa McCarthy. I love them both. But so often, I feel like fat female bodies are used as props. -- Mary Lambert
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
Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors. -- Clarence Darrow
Rebel Heart changed everything. First of all, it drove me insane - and made me feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. It made me second guess everything, because suddenly I thought, 'Oh god, everyone's heard all these demos.' -- Madonna Ciccone
What do we need all that for?"If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good. I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture. -- James Dean
I would say that my great political awakening was really born on Okinawa, reading Albert Camus: the "Neither Victims nor Executioners" essay and The Rebel. I was an eighteen-year-old kid. I hated myself. I hated my life. I thought nobody wanted me. -- Sam Hamill
When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you . . . I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird. -- Florence Welch
Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness. -- Aleister Crowley
I love it when the director says, 'Rebel, just do whatever you want.' I'm, like, 'Yes! -- Rebel Wilson
People ask if my parents are hippies, but they're actually very conservative. A girl called Rebel sang at their wedding, and that's where my name came from. -- Rebel Wilson
Every woman is a rebel. -- Oscar Wilde
What is a rebel? A man who says no. -- Albert Camus
How do you rebel in a family of rebels? -- Nicolas Cage
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. -- Oscar Wilde
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. -- Thomas Browne
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. -- Pierre Corneille
Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. -- George Orwell
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. -- Thomas Carlyle
I'm kind of in between a goody-goody and a rebel. I'm not bad, but I'm not good either. I'm a little crazy. -- Michelle Wie
You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self. -- Dhani Harrison
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
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. -- Chaim Potok
The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me. -- Kate Winslet
Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library. -- Michelle Rodriguez
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
I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense. -- Anna Paquin
There's a rebel lying deep in my soul. -- Clint Eastwood
I don't worry. I don't doubt. I'm daring. I'm a rebel. -- Mr. T
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. -- Taylor Caldwell
My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. -- Sherman Alexie
I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think. -- Marjane Satrapi
I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize. -- Joe Hill
In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature. -- Chip Conley
What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. -- Albert Camus
The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted. -- Nick Nolte
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains! -- Kevin Spacey
The brunette phase just came about because I was fed up with this 'Blonde Angel Image'. The rebel in me demanded a new color. -- Magdalena Neuner
To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules. -- Philippe Petit
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
When Americans are faced with the prospect that they can never earn their way to wealth, they have two choices: to rebel against the system, or to settle into depressed complacency. -- Ben Shapiro
I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important. -- Larry Bishop
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. -- William Petersen
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. -- Joan Jett
Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall. -- Anne Lamott
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors. -- Gary Hamel
Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that? -- Kim Gordon
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. -- Veronica Lake
Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us? -- Henry Rollins
Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant. -- Ariel Durant
I really rebel against authority. -- Mariah Carey
I always wanted to rebel. -- Kim Gordon
I rebel; therefore I exist. -- Albert Camus
A rebel without a clue. -- Tom Petty
Fidel Castro was a born rebel. -- Tom Gjelten
The despairing soul is a rebel. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I've always been in a rebel. -- Donnie Yen
I'm a real rebel with a cause. -- Nina Simone
I was a bit of a rebel. -- Vidal Sassoon
In order to exist, man must rebel. -- Albert Camus
It is right to rebel against reactionaries. -- Mao Zedong
Solitude is the rebel of the freedom. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Nobody wants to feel they're not a rebel. -- Michael Crichton
Everyone has that moment where they just rebel. -- M.I.A.
He barks out a laugh. "My little rebel. -- R.L. LaFevers
I was a real rebel. I got expelled. -- Katie Price
I was not cut out to be a rebel. -- Gene Tierney
I would rather be a rebel than a slave. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel. -- Elvis Presley
It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship. -- Henri Nouwen
Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress. -- C. S. Lewis
If you really wanna be a rebel, read your bible. -- lecrae
Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel. -- Jonathan Winters
I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider. -- Vivienne Westwood
Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel. -- Mario Balotelli
Let them call me rebel, I feel no concern from it. -- Thomas Paine
The connection economy rewards the leader, the initiator, and the rebel. -- Seth
People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. -- Yuri Kochiyama
I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do. -- Josh Turner
Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint. -- Thomas Brooks
Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground. -- Tomas Kalnoky
If you try to give them a scheme, most hitters will rebel. -- Tony La Russa
I didn't rebel as a child. I missed that angry teenager thing. -- Billy Crystal
In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist. -- Nicole Kidman
While my dad is a rebel at heart, I am a conformist. -- Vivaan Shah
I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will. -- Paul Thomas Anderson
If someone puts too much pressure on me, I will automatically rebel. -- Carnie Wilson
You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her. -- George Orwell
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. -- Richard Dawkins
Robert Pattinson is rebel cool incarnated -- the James Dean of the undead. -- James Wolcott
Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted. -- Gloria Steinem
The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops. -- William Saroyan
I'm a would-be rebel. The good girl who'd like to be a bad one. -- Helen Mirren
That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous. -- Shirley Manson
REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it. -- Ambrose Bierce
I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents. -- Taylor Swift
I was a normal, rather dutiful child. I didn't even rebel as a teenager. -- Emily Watson
Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth. -- Criss Jami
Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws. -- Philip Sidney
For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer. -- Mary McCarthy

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