Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

My mind,” he said, “rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense...

A temporary coalition of anger against the old regime was no basis for a stable government.

those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.

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.

So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the ultimate badge of shame-‘That’s so 60’s!’-the entire decade having been mocked so...

A man’s only got so many yeses inside him before he uses them all up.

Being classy is my teenage rebellion.

How do you kill something that’s already dead?Nobody knows enough about them. Ask Jason. He’ll have an opinion.Wait a moment. Rachel could see Corinne talking to Jason, but they were too far ahead to hear....

When I decided to become an actress, I think I let some people down. It was a kind of rebellion.

That wish to enter into an elusive element which had urged Cosimo into the trees, was still working now inside him unsatisfied, making him long for a more intimate link, a relationship which would bind...

If this is truly the time that will decide, we have no business refusing people who feel the way we do. No right to decide that they must huddle in their homes waiting to see...

God’s anger is the toil and suffering of man. Man’s anger is the love and worship of his enemy.

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.

This is not just a demonstration. This is a rebellion.

The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish...

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

Most young people have rebellious, anti-authoritarian impulses. They don’t like being told what, when, or how to do something. It’s ironic, then, that many of these same people embrace a system in which there would...

All children are born rebels and explorers until they’re taught to sit still and obey.

Enrollments in American colleges tripled between 1955 and 1970, 250% in the Soviet Union, 400% in France, and more than 200% in China by 1965. Gaddis writes, “What governments failed to foresee was that more...

Entrepreneurs see the “no diving” sign and back-up to get a running start.

I really can’t think about kissing when I’ve got a rebellion to incite.

Qu’on le sache bien, une bonne fois pour toutes: je ne veux pas me civiliser.

Progress is dependent upon a productive and dynamic tension between institutionalism and insurrectionism. Insurrectionists keep our institutions honest. Insurrection us are stewards of our collective public life.

But always there was the voice at the back of his head telling him that by joining the Rebellion he’d become less of a rebel than he’d ever been. Flying off to assault yet another...

We have defied the day as it was set out for us.

Everyone is a little bitter. We’re born bitter. The personality itself is really just a very complex defense mechanism. A reaction to the first time someone said, “No you can’t.

Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven’t hurt people – you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it.

At the negotiations in Irvine, it became clear to me that there was no side I could stand on. The English despise me and my countrymen don’t trust me. Wallace and the others are rebelling...

Ew, sicko. I was practicing Edomic.””Sure you were,” Jason said. “You’re just too embarrassed to admit you were playing hide-and-seek all alone. Rachel hiding, nobody seeking.

…and we’ll see what happens when we say Yes while this rigor mortis world screams No.

I wouldn’t have gone if he’d made me. But it was different, deciding myself. It made staying too easy. It took the…the rebelliousness out of it.’Peter nodded. ‘It’s easy to take the opposite path from...

So che, rifiutando a mia volta di accettare un compromesso con i fondamentalisti e con i signori della guerra, o di annacquare le mie denunce nei loro confronti, protrò finire con l’essere annoverata anch’io nel...

Do not be a follower. Be a leader. Rebel-Rebel-Rebel.

How do we stay on the narrow path of following God’s will in every sphere of life? How do we maintain sure footing and not fall into the temptation of rebellion on one side, or...

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. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the...

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it.

I tell you,” said Augustine, “if there is anything that revealed with the strength of a divine law in our times, it is that the masses are to rise, and the under class becomes the...

Love is a wild child, always at odds with society.

Dad, she’s just going to freak. And probably come here and get me, and then you guys will start yelling at each other, and I’ll have to act out by wearing lots of eyeliner and...

I refuse to settle for what you call reality.

And if we burn, you burn with us.

I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind...

I am often described to my irritation as a ‘contrarian’ and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up...

Obedience is the virtue that determines whether a person is either a servant or a rebel. Life of integrity is built on obedience of God’s statutes and nothing else.

Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.

Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events, so she changed the subject. “I think I have finally worked out what you were trying to tell...

What’s wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?””Everything, since he has a command and I have not.

At that moment, Robert saw James Stewart turn to him. A jolt went through him as the steward nodded. Before anyone could begin speaking again, he headed out of the crowd towards Wallace, leaving his...