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Letter "R" » rebellion
«If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation»
Author: Abigail Adams
(First Lady, Writer)
| About:
Caring,
Women
| Keywords:
foment, ladies, rebellion, representation, representations
«Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.»
Author: Alice Cooper
| Keywords:
drinking, hotel, hotels, Hotel I, hotel room, rebellion, trashed, Trashing
«If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribe would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without right than to live in such a state of right as this»
«It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
a few, determined, leaders, majority, rebellion, Rebellions, sound, the rebellion
«Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.»
Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer
| Keywords:
adults, childish, clarity, devils, get rid of, goblin, goblins, Gods Themselves, identity, No Angel, obsolete, openly, Or logic, psychology, punctuation, quench, quenches, rebellion, redeem, The Family, The Gods Themselves, The Witches, thirst, witches, witching, yawn, yawning, yawns
«Any punishment that does not correct, that can merely rouse rebellion in whoever has to endure it, is a piece of gratuitous infamy which makes those who impose it more guilty in the eyes of humanity, good sense and reason, nay a hundred times more guilty than the victim on whom the punishment is inflicted.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
a hundred, a hundred times, correct, good sense, gratuitous, guilty, impose, infamies, infamy, inflicted, inflicting, nay, nays, not guilty, piece, punishment, rebellion, rouse, rouses, rousing, The Victim, victim
«Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
essence, expresses, innocence, nostalgia, rebellion, with nostalgia
«Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
History,
Obedience
| Keywords:
disobedience, has-been, history, original, originals, progress, rebellion, Rebellions, the rebellion, virtue
«A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
government, health, medicine, now and then, rebellion, Rebellions, sound, the rebellion, The Sound
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