Top 100 A Rebel Quotes
#1. Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
John Holmes
#2. At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does not contain at least three pupils who can be counted on to oppose the teachers authority and loudly and persistently to question everything he says.
Gilbert Highet
#4. I feel confident I should have been a rebel Angel had the opportunity been mine.
John Keats
#5. Many governments are quick to condemn Assad, but a dwindling number of them would celebrate a rebel victory in Damascus.
Richard Engel
#6. I always was a rebel ... but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted ... and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.
John Lennon
#8. What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.
Albert Camus
#9. My dad was a rebel. A half-destroyed history book hidden in his room, friends at his funeral I knew nothing about . . . a daughter named America. If I'd paid attention at all, I would have seen it years ago.
Kiera Cass
#10. I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Robert Osborne
#11. I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.
Angelina Jolie
#12. ...[A] rebel who is inaccurate and mad is a traitor.
Rebecca West
#13. I wanted to be a rebel so badly.
Shamir
#14. I couldn't really be a part of high school, because I have a terrible time doing things that I don't want to do. I'm not good at it. It's not even like, I'm a rebel. I'm just bad at it, you know?
El-P
#15. 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
#16. The difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.
Sidney Sheldon
#17. If you really wanna be a rebel, read your bible.
LeCrae
#18. What hurts me most is poverty, and that's what led me to become a rebel.
Hugo Chavez
#19. A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil.
Criss Jami
#20. Curse made a rebel of me. Or perhaps I was that way naturally. Mother rarely insisted I do anything. Father
Gail Carson Levine
#21. As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
Thomas Browne
#22. Just listening to Pac, ain't gon' make it stop
A rebel in your thoughts, ain't gon' make it halt
If you don't become an actor, you'll never be a factor
Lupe Fiasco
#23. You could be a rebel, a profound thinker, and a rock and roll maniac and still eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and drink a nice cup of tea with your friends.
Pamela Des Barres
#24. I'm not going to be a rebel and offend anybody, but I'm not going to live in somebody else's image.
Iris Apfel
#25. Why these people who want to do so much good for everyone, who call themselves government and this and that, why them say you must not use the herb? You see, them say you must not use the herb because it makes you a rebel. Against what?
Bob Marley
#27. Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.
Jean Cocteau
#29. A gown does not make a bride, just as a few empty threats do not make a rebel.
Morgan Rhodes
#30. But always there was the voice at the back of his head telling him that by joining the Rebellion he'd become less of a rebel than he'd ever been. Flying off to assault yet another impossibly well-defended Imperial stronghold. It was getting to be a bad habit.
James S.A. Corey
#31. Because a rebel is just a guy who doesn't have the good sense to go the same way the crowd is going, and the composure to act like that was his idea all along.
Aisha Tyler
#32. I really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.
Robert Pattinson
#33. He thought of Jesus as a great teacher, a rebel who refused to see the poor and disenfranchised mistreated.
Alice Hoffman
#35. Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.
Michael Franti
#36. I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.
Jonathan Winters
#37. Feathers covered the carnage, as if a rebel angel had gone mad.
Stephanie Garber
#38. I have a wish for world peace and the truth. I would like to see a society that will bring happiness to all life forms. Of course, to the Nazis, I appear a rebel, but to the rebels, I appear like a normal person from Venus.
Nina Hagen
#39. Negativity sells. I have been labelled a rebel. If I had been one, would I have got married at 23? Would I have been a straight A student?
Sania Mirza
#40. My idol was Sandino, and also Christ. I was brought up a Christian, but I regarded Christ as a rebel, a revolutionary.
Daniel Ortega
#41. I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
D.H. Lawrence
#42. The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops.
William, Saroyan
#43. Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.
Ben Jonson
#44. Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are
Niels Bohr
#45. I couldn't understand what was important about school. Dropping out was the first adult decision I made. If I ever have kids, I would hate for them to drop out. But I wasn't a rebel. I never cared to be against school. I just wanted to do what I wanted to do.
Philipp Meyer
#46. I'd love to be on 'Glee.' I'd love to play a rebel. Be a real biker chick in leather and covered in tattoos.
Leona Lewis
#47. Inside each one of us is a rebel just waiting to be freed. That rebel is the real "You.
Margaret Aranda
#48. I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.
Robert Breault
#49. It's so easy for some people to get naked. They think they're so promiscuous and avant-garde and rebellious ... but year-round their souls are covered in winter clothing! My soul is promiscuous, now how's that for being a rebel without a cause? They are amateurs.
C. JoyBell C.
#50. That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.
Felicia Day
#51. She was not a rebel princess, shattering enemy castles and killing kings. She was a force of nature. She was a calamity and a commander of immortal warriors of legend.
Sarah J. Maas
#52. No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Lawrence Durrell
#53. To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.
Kate Millett
#54. You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.
Criss Jami
#56. If we had had the privilege of giving hospitality to a Ho Chi Minh, with what respect and interest we would have served him, as a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders.
Dorothy Day
#57. I portray a hard-ace shell on the outside; strong, unapproachable and a rebel. But on the inside, I'm a gooey, emotional, scaredy cat mess.
Shelly Crane
#58. That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.
Shirley Manson
#59. But Gale? Gale is a warrior. He's a rebel. He's a badass. He's a knight.
Leah Wilson
#61. Pain plants the flag of truth within a rebel fortress.
C.S. Lewis
#62. As the clutter of outrageous, fantastical photographs that today occupy Sandy Island's place on Google Earth suggests, Sandy Island's disappearance established it as a rebel base for the imagination, an innocent and an upstart that managed to escape the vast technologies of omni-knowledge.
Anonymous
#63. Maybe there's a place for a rebel ghost within the Order's ranks after all." - Lucan
Lara Adrian
#64. You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter. You are the best thing that's ever been mine.
Taylor Swift
#65. For all sins, as theologians weary not of reminding us, are sins of disobedience. When that high spirit, that morning star of evil, fell from heaven, it was as a rebel that he fell.
Oscar Wilde
#66. A rebel she was, but not of the kind he understood - a rebel who desired, not a wider dwelling-room, but equality beside the man she loved.
E. M. Forster
#67. Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
L. Ron Hubbard
#68. The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#69. Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
Thomas Paine
#70. 8 You have never heard, you have never known, from of old your ear has not been opened. For I knew that you would surely deal treacherously, and that l from before birth you were called a rebel.
Anonymous
#72. I am a rebel by birth ... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity . My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest .
Yip Harburg
#73. Hey hey hey
I was born a rebel
Down in Dixie on a Sunday morning
Yeah, with one foot in the grave
And one foot on the pedal
I was born a rebel, born a rebel
Tom Petty
#74. Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.
Jim Elliot
#75. It's significantly more satisfying to kick a wall than it is to kick thin air. For the rebellious teen- or the teen who wants to feel like a rebel- a clearly defined law gives you something to define yourself against.
Robin Wasserman
#76. I don't think of myself as a rebel; I just say what I think.
Marjane Satrapi
#77. One cannot reign innocently: the insanity of doing so is evident. Every king is a rebel and a usurper.
Louis Antoine De Saint-Just
#78. When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.
Vivienne Westwood
#79. 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
#80. A born terror, a rebel without a pause ...
Ain't never had a good Christmas, so who is Santa Claus?
Shyheim
#81. We must declare this Snow a traitor and a rebel," agreed Ser Harys Swyft. "The black brothers must remove him." Grand Maester Pycelle nodded ponderously. "I propose that we inform Castle Black that no more men will be sent to them until such time as Snow is gone.
George R R Martin
#82. While my dad is a rebel at heart, I am a conformist.
Vivaan Shah
#83. I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.
Maya Beiser
#84. What is a rebel? Someone who says no. But saying no does not mean giving up: it also means saying yes, with every gesture.
Albert Camus
#85. Man is a rebel, and a rebel is naturally in confusion. He is in conflict with every other rebel. For a rebel by his very nature is selfish. He is seeking his own good and not the good of others.
Billy Graham
#86. So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.
Archie Shepp
#87. Sebastian's eyes were the color of smoke and silver. His pale skin, raven hair, and naturally dark red lips, paired with a rebel attitude and a poet's soul, pulled me in like a dark, magnetic force.
Kelly Keaton
#88. A rebel to what's cool, I don't follow trends, maybe that's why I don't have many friends, but I know my destination.
Delano Johnson
#89. What if I don't want to go?"
"I like you, kid," he says. "You're a rebel." He leans against the doorframe and nods his approval. "But to be honest, no one has the obligation to feed you, house you, protect you, be nice to you, treat you like a human being - "
"Okay, okay. I get it.
Susan Ee
#91. He was a loner with an intimate bond to humanity, a rebel who was suffused with reverence. And thus it was that an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe.
Walter Isaacson
#92. In my heart I'm independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist.
Nicole Kidman
#93. Sin is lawlessness and constitutes the doer thereof a rebel against the righteous rule of His sovereign Lord.
C.F.W. Walther
#95. SCORPIUS: The what? The where? Look, I am as excited as you are to be a rebel for the first time in my life - yay - train roof - fun - but now - oh.
J.K. Rowling
#96. Live in insecurity! Live in revolution! Be a rebel! Risk, because nothing is ever attained in life without risk. The more you risk, the closer you are to God. When you can risk all, all is yours.
Osho
#97. Be neither a conformist or a rebel, for they are really the same thing. Find your own path, and stay on it
Paul A. Vixie
#98. You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her.
George Orwell
#99. I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my grandfather Mohammad. I intend to enjoin good and forbid evil, to act according to the traditions of my grandfather, and my father Ali Ibn Abi-Talib.
Husayn Ibn Ali
#100. I think school is so important. I was good student. A rebel, but I did well in my studies. I don't close myself to anything. I liked reading and I still love learning. I loved history and German.
Bruno Tonioli
