#rebel

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#because #been #cautious #humanity #immature

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others. ↗

— Georg Solti

#against #although #both #both sides #did

In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#angels #becoming #beginning #believed #cast

The Earth needs rebels! ↗

— David Icke

#needs #rebels

Sometimes when I read about my rebellion in print it sounds a little overrated. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#i #in print #little #overrated #print

I'm not really rebellious. People think I am, but I'm not. ↗

— Tom Sizemore

#i #i am #people #really #rebellious

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains! ↗

— Kevin Spacey

#brains #establishment #got #haven #heart

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#independence #originality #rebellion #sincerity

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#complaining #rebellion #attitude

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home who has found his people everywhere. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#rebel #true-beauty #universal #universal-beauty #beauty