#rebel

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#politics #rebellion #rebellion

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#rebellion #rebellion

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#basically #conditioning #culture #doing #good

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

#fight #foot #force #forces #got

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules. ↗

— Harold Ramis

#else #everyone #losers #play #rebels

When I was trying out for my first Olympics at 16, my family and coaches tried to regulate what I ate. But the stricter they got, the more I rebelled. ↗

— Alicia Sacramone

#coaches #family #first #got #i

They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses after business hours to talk of work just started or magazines unpublished, and even to lay modest plans for the future. Modestly they were beginning to write poems worth the trouble of reading to their friends over coffee cups. Modestly they were rebelling once more. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

#conversation #future-plans #lost-generation #modest #new-york

A little rebellion is a good thing. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#rebellion #revolution #change

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#literature #reader #rebellion #writers #writing

Recall how often in human history the saint and the rebel have be the same person. (p. 35) ↗

— Rollo May

#saint #courage