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Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions. -- Ryan Lilly
Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change. -- Indira Gandhi
Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen. -- Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. -- Emile M. Cioran
Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them. -- Lillian Hellman
Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts. -- Carol Tavris
Rebels in Darfur have learned the value of mobilizing western human rights groups to prolong wars, and this lesson is working gloriously for them. -- Stephen Kinzer
In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Rebels learn the rules better than the rule-makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style. -- Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope, And God Save--as you prefer--the King or Ireland. The land of scholars and saints: Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush, Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints -- Louis MacNeice
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
If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases. -- Rutherford B. Hayes
Rebels defy the rules of society, risking everything to retain their humanity. If the world Atwood depicts is chilling, if 'God is losing,' the only hope for optimism is a vision that includes the inevitability of human struggle against the prevailing order. -- Joyce Johnson
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I could never leave Las Vegas. I can't really afford New York or Los Angeles. I love this town. We don't have that much. We have the Runnin' Rebels and boxer Floyd Mayweather. When Mayweather fights, it's good for the whole city. It's like the Super Bowl out here. -- Chumlee
The Earth needs rebels! -- David Icke
How do you rebel in a family of rebels? -- Nicolas Cage
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. -- Edmund Burke
The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels. -- Rush Limbaugh
My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules. -- Harold Ramis
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. -- Thurgood Marshall
It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people. -- Peter Oliver
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists. -- Bill Maher
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels. -- Yoweri Museveni
In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving enough money for their ransom. I wasn't believed. -- Jane Goodall
This nation was founded by rebels and revolutionaries, and its flags were carried across the battlefields by people who were very, very against the status quo and who questioned and criticized. -- Lupe Fiasco
One of the greatest rebels, who I really admire: Christ. He was a rebel. He ended up being crucified. He was a great rebel. He rebelled against the established power that subjugated. -- Hugo Chavez
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
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
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
How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else. -- Nicolas Cage
The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. -- Charles Bronson
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
Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You always worry about charlatans. We found that specialists did not know as much as we thought. -- Charles Bronson
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
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. -- Isabel Allende
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
When I visited Syrian special forces along the front lines, I was given extraordinary amounts of detail. They gave me the code numbers for the various positions they've got, told me where the rebels were - about 800 meters away in a forest. I met soldiers who had been wounded but were still serving. -- Robert Fisk
I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels. -- Chris Abani
All women are rebels. -- Oscar Wilde
Persecution matures young rebels. -- Han Suyin
Youth to itself rebels, though none else near. -- William Shakespeare
The constellations this year seem unfavourable to rebels. -- Cesare Borgia
We're destroying the planet, and the planet rebels. -- Marina Abramovic
There are no rebels in the cinema business. -- Beatrice Dalle
America is a land of creators and rebels. -- Jose Marti
True lovers are as rare as true rebels. -- Masha Tupitsyn
If you are not their slaves, you are rebels. -- C. L. R. James
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding. -- Ben Jonson
Young people are not only rebels. They have a special heart. -- Gloria Trevi
My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work! -- Arthur Conan Doyle
God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
All roads lead to another road for renegades, rebels, and rogues. -- Tracy Lawrence
It's not rebels that make trouble, but trouble that makes rebels. -- Ruth Messinger
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers".. -- Steve Jobs
When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles -- Frank Herbert
It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. -- Robert Burns
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires. -- Eric S. Raymond
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. -- Edmund Burke
If you want creative and successful children, resign yourself to jousting with rebels. -- Jack McDevitt
Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes -- Colin Powell
Let's recognize that, the Houthi rebels in Yemen are fully subsidized by Iran. -- Mike Pence
I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing. -- Leighton Meester
Talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among nonconformists, dissenters, and rebels. -- David Ogilvy
All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey. -- Marty Rubin
We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song. -- Brian Harvey
That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013]. -- Bashar al-Assad
My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines. -- Mahatma Gandhi
My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels. -- Karl Marx
The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month. -- William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily. -- Ray Bradbury
Crowded hallways, are the loneliest places, for outcasts and rebels,or anyone who just dares to be different. -- Hunter Hayes
Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels? -- Henry David Thoreau
The crypto currency community hasn't decided whether they want to be anarchist rebels or to replace the establishment. -- Adi Shamir
[Donald] Trump suggesting to "The Wall Street Journal" that he would stop aiding the rebels fighting [Bashir] Assad. -- George Stephanopoulos
We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore. -- Richard Engel
Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore. -- Richard Engel
Instead of fighting ISIS, (the Saudis) have focused more on a campaign to oust Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. -- Bernie Sanders
The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels. -- Jane Addams
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat -- George Bernard Shaw
We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms. -- C. S. Lewis
We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight. -- Albert Camus
To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century. -- Terence McKenna
When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion -- Oprah Winfrey
Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood. -- Jane Fonda
The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill. -- Woodrow Wilson
Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford. -- Assata Shakur
The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes. -- Marshall McLuhan
I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state. -- Tony Horwitz
We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms. -- C. S. Lewis
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment. -- James Gould Cozzens
True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
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. -- Walter Isaacson
You never hear in the news, 'Two hundred killed today when atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the agnostic stronghold in the north.' -- Doug Stanhope
True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life -- James A. Baldwin
You mistake us for abstaining your kind from undeserving happiness when all we do is to fight for our cause. We are soldiers, not rebels. -- Calvin Vronsky
The rebels will be thinking about retaliation, what we have to do is stop; stop and transform it into a spiral of forgiveness and reconciliation. -- Juan Manuel Santos
By the cross we, too, are crucified with Christ; but alive in Christ. We are no more rebels, but servants; no more servants, but sons! -- Frederic Farrar
I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside. -- C. S. Lewis
Unlike the former Soviet Union that respected the strength of West, Putin's Russia ignores talk of sanctions, claims land, and supports rebels in Ukraine with impunity. -- Mike Pence
I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that. -- Maya Lin
Our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past while we silence the rebels of the present. -- Henry Steele Commager
A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments. -- Jim Morrison
In 2004, I went to Israel and gave a speech that resulted in guns and ammunition being given to the South Sudanese rebels, specifically Commanders Athol's and Yaka's armies. -- Kola Boof
Honduras is strongly anti-Communist, maintains no diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, and has provided vital support for United States-backed rebels fighting to overthrow the Sandinistas in neighboring Nicaragua. -- Stephen Kinzer
Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem None rebels except subjects? The prince who Neglects or violates his trust is more A brigand than the robber-chief. -- Lord Byron
To comfort a sorrowful conscience is much better than to possess many kngdoms; yet the world regards it not; nay, condemns it, calling us rebels, dissturbers of the peace. -- Martin Luther
I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them. -- Tom Petty
I think that by arming the allies of ISIS, the Islamic rebels against [Bashar] Assad, that we created a safe space or made that space bigger for ISIS to grow. -- Rand Paul
In America, every time we take rebels, whether it's in Iraq or anywhere else, we're arming people. And you know what happens? They end up being worse than the people. -- Donald Trump
It is a quaint comment on the notion that the English are practical and the French merely visionary, that we were rebels in arts while they were rebels in arms. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors. -- C. S. Lewis
If the American administration want to support Al-Qaeda - go ahead. That's what we have to tell them, go ahead and support Al-Qaeda, but don't talk about rebels and free Syrian army. -- Bashar al-Assad
Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don't accept. -- Bashar al-Assad
I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either. -- Rand Paul
The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the â??Oh how banal.â?? -- David Foster Wallace
Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them. Tunes for dancing or for weeping, for battle or for love. -- Nora Roberts
We are worried that rebels are taking control in many countries, and look at the results now. Are you satisfied as an American ? What are the results ? Nothing. Very bad - nothing good. -- Bashar al-Assad

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