#rebellion

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#personality #rebellion

The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we can find not only war but resistance to war, not only injustice but rebellion against injustice, not only selfishness but self-sacrifice, not only silence in the fact of tyranny but defiance, not only callousness but compassion. Human beings show a broad spectrum of qualities, but it is the worst of these that are usually emphasized, and the result, too often, is to dishearten us, diminish our spirit. And yet, historically, that spirit refuses to surrender. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#history #hope #injustice #optimisim #spirit

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. ↗

— Albert Camus

#rebellion #love

That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#another #buy #his #i #keeping

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. ↗

— Albert Camus

#appeal #being #essence #every #expresses

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. ↗

— Albert Camus

#claim #consent #give #ideologies #lead

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#prodigal #rebellion #reconciliation #repentance #restoration

If we get to shoot the third one, which I'm really hoping we do, the third one's great. There's a big uprising and rebellion, and my character Gale's a big part of that. If we get to shoot that, I'll be very, very pleased. ↗

— Liam Hemsworth

#character #gale #get #great #hoping

What created democracy was Thomas Paine and Shays' Rebellion, the suffragists and the abolitionists and on down through the populists and the labor movement, including the Wobblies. Tough, in your face people... Mother Jones, Woody Guthrie... Martin Luther King and Caesar Chavez. And now it's down to us. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#caesar #chavez #created #democracy #down

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced. ↗

— Charles Inglis

#commenced #dread #enthusiast #even #infinitely