Rebel Quotes

• Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Power
  • Environment
  • Exercise

• I've always been a rebel, always curious about the world around me.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • World
  • Rebel

• The exousia of political power … is a rebel exousia, an angel in revolt against God.

  

  Jacques Ellul
  • God
  • Power
  • Political

• I rebel - therefore we exist.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Rebel

• Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Life
  • Rebel

• I always go for the underdog or the rogue or the rebel.

  

  Vanessa Kirby
  • Rebel

• As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don't care if it's self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.

  

  Megan Fox
  • Fire
  • Rebel

• I've always been a rebel and it's got me in trouble sometimes, and probably kept me poor. And then again, maybe not, because I might not have the two daughters that I have, you know. And we're all so close now.

  

  Charles Henry Mosley III Bad Brains
  • Sometimes
  • Daughter
  • Trouble

• I've always been in a rebel.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • Rebel

• Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?

  

  Lauren Bush
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Done

• You remember, we were sittin' there, by the water,You put your arm around me for the first time.You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter.You are the best thing that's ever been mine.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Water

• The real question is whether we can learn anything from our experiences upon which we may grow and help others to grow in the likeness and image of God. We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there. Apparently, the course of relative humility and progress will have to lie somewhere between these extremes. In our slow progress away from rebellion, true perfection is doubtless several millennia away

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Real
  • Wisdom
  • Progress

• I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

  

  Frank Lampard
  • Real
  • Football
  • Rebel

• On the one hand I have very traditional values: I'm looking for love and want a baby one day. On the other hand, I have a secret and rebel side, that I maybe took from an Australian mom who handed down to me the love for adventure and freedom. And sometimes I feel a bit offbeat.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Freedom
  • Hand
  • Mom

• I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Causes
  • Rebel
  • Reckless

• I was a real rebel. I got expelled.

  

  Katie Price
  • Real
  • Rebel

• I didn't rebel in the way a lot of people do.

  

  Josh Turner
  • People
  • Rebel

• Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Way
  • Accepting
  • Temptation

• One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.

  

  Confucius
  • Law
  • Suffering
  • Rebel

• If I'm shopping at the Gap or Old Navy, I'm saying that I'm an ordinary person: I don't want to be seen; I don't want to stand out. That's a statement. If I'm wearing a leather jacket, there's something about me that's kind of a rebel. So everybody says something, whether they want to or not.

  

  Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
  • Shopping
  • Rebel

• Yes, my fashion sense is outrageous, but I am a rebel. I am young and still growing up.

  

  Nia Sharma
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Fashion

• God unleashes history in the beginning. God helps the baby to stand in the beginning. But God is also out ahead, calling history homeward across the field or across the room. God doesn't force it. Sometimes history responds, or some parts of history respond, but others resist or rebel. But God keeps calling.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • God
  • History
  • Baby

• 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 The Beatles
  • Musician
  • Poet
  • Lunatic

• If any man whatsoever hath carried on the design of deposing the King and disinheriting his posterity; or if any man hath yet such a design he should be the greatest traitor and rebel in the world; but, since the Providence of God hath cast this upon us, I cannot but submit to Providence.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • World
  • God
  • Men

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