R Quotes
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“Rebellion flamed up in her soul as the dark hours passed by – not because she had no future but because she had no past.”
Source: The Collected Works of Lucy Maud Montgomery: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poems, Letters and Memoirs (Including The Complete Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Avonlea & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of Windy Poplars, Rainbow Valley, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, The Story Girl, The Golden Road, Pat of Silver Bush, The Blue Castle & many more
“Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.”
Source: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems
“Rebellion is a departure from the right ways.”
“Rebellion is a negative form of living.”
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“Rebellion is as much of a cage as obedience is. They both mean living in reaction to someone else's way instead of forging your own.”
Source: Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / A Toolkit for Modern Life
“Rebellion is necessary for development of character.”
“Rebellion is not always loud. Sometimes it’s the quiet refusal to give up on tenderness.”
“Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it keeps this narrative alive...We speak a fundamental truth about this system that terrifies them.”
“Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.”
“Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!”
“Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.”
“Rebellion isn’t something
one sought or fought
but merely born with”
“Rebellion leads to ruin.”
“Rebellion never goes without consequences.”
Source: The Seven Checkpoints for Youth Leaders
“Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.”
Source: Great Dissenters
“Rebellion sounded like a lot of fun, but in Calcutta there was nothing to rebel against. Where would it get you?”
Source: Desirable Daughters
“Rebellion to tyranny is obedience to God.”
“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”
Source: The Compleated Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.”
“Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.”
Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
“Rebellion, just to be clear, can mean holding onto some of your own integrity, of not playing into the idea of sensationalism. We all have our moments, and that's your guys' job - to take those moments and make them turgid, gaseous, make them big, and it's bigger than the person is. When you start believing your own press, that's when it gets really sad.”
“Rebellions are always surprising in American society because segregation hides Black life from white America.”
“Rebellions are built on hope.”
Source: From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back
“Rebellions of the belly are the worst.”
Source: The Essays of Francis Bacon
“Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is not just for the purpose of correcting past injustices, a revolution involves a projection of man/woman into the future...It begins with projecting the notion of a more human human being, i.e. a human being who is more advanced in the specific qualities which only human beings have - creativity, consciousness and self-consciousness, a sense of political and social responsibility.”
“Rebellions work. We’ve seen it. We’ve helped make it happen.”
Source: Empire's End
“Rebelliousness or unconventionality as such do not constitute proof of individualism. Just as individualism does not consist merely of rejecting collectivism, so it does not consist merely of the absence of conformity. A conformist is a man who declares, “It’s true because others believe it”—but an individualist is not a man who declares, “It’s true because I believe it.” An individualist declares, “I believe it because I see in reason that it’s true.”
Source: The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism
“Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm.”
“Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.”
Source: Anger, the misunderstood emotion
“Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and, as the theory would predict, they are usually denigrated for their efforts. While they are alive, they may be called 'cantankerous,' 'crazy,' 'hysterical,' 'uppity,' or 'duped.' Dead, some of them become saints and heroes, the sterling characters of history. It's a matter of proportion. One angry rebel is crazy, three is a conspiracy, 50 is a movement.”
“Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.”
Source: The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti
“Rebels are the ones that truly change the world, they don’t accept the status quo and have the courage to do something about it.”
“Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.”
“Rebels aren't persuaded by arguments such as 'People are counting on you,' 'You've already paid for it'...'Things should be done this way,' 'You have an appointment,' 'You said you'd do it'...'It's against the rules,' 'It's a tradition,' 'This is the deadline,' or 'It's rude.'
They're much more apt to respond to being told 'This will be fun,' 'This is what *you* want'...Rebels can do anything they *want* to do.”
Source: The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better
“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.”
“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.”
“Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.”
“Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.”
“Rebels usually have something to complain about, and if they don't they make it up. All too often the really disadvantaged are in no position to rebel; they just suffer quietly.”
Source: The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It
“Rebirth always follows death.”
Source: Norse Mythology
“Rebirth is almost impossible without the darkness.....I tell myself I am experiencing the death of myself as mother, the death of myself as a younger woman -- precious old lives going by the wayside. Of course, I should let myself grieve. To deny the grief is to squander a transforming and radiant possibility.”
“Rebirth is an affirmation that must be counted among the primordial affirmations of mankind. The concept of rebirth necessarily implies the continuity of personality. Here the human personality is regarded as continuous and accessible to memory, so that, when one is incarnated or born, one is able, potentially, to remember that one has lived through previous existences, and that these existences were one's own, ie, they had the same ego form as the present life. As a rule, reincarnation means rebirth in a human body.”
“Rebirth is born of God.”
“Rebirth is inevitable so long as one has desires. It is like taking the soul from one pillow-case and putting it into another. Only one or two out of many men can be found who are free from all desires.”
Source: The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi
“Rebirth is the grace of redemption.”
“Rebirth,
Reformed,
Rejuvenated,
Revitalized,
Refreshed.
Reformed.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Rebirth. I mean by this simply what happens when the child begins to realise the fact that the black does not enter through the white’s front door is not in the same category as the fact that the dead will never come back.”
Source: Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008
“Reboot. Recalibrate. Redefine. That’s the new normal post COVID-19.”
“Rebooting our enthusiasm is like deciding to become our own best coach, rather than our own worst enemy.”
Source: Encouragement: How to Be and Find the Best
“Rebound sex is fine when you want to rebound and bounce back in life, but when you only want to bounce back into a bed with your ex-girlfriend, rebound sex would only ever turn out to be a regrettable thing”
Source: Double Trouble