The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: peace rebellion equanimity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Despair, surely the least aggressive of sins, is dangerous to the totalitarian temperament because it is a state of intense inwardness, thus independence. The despairing soul is a rebel. —Joyce Carol Oates More about this quote Tags: power rebellion despair totalitarianism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. —Christopher Morley More about this quote Tags: rebellion feminism height forehead chauvinism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Freedom lies beyond conformity or rebellion. —Sam Keen More about this quote Tags: freedom rebellion conformity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
After the Easter Rebellion of 1916 in Ireland, Eamon De Valera was sentenced to penal servitude. En route to his prison, he took out his pipe and was about to light it when he stopped suddenly and said, "I will not let them deprive me of this pleasure in jail!" He immediately threw away the pipe and from that day never smoked again. —Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Tags: history rebellion prison jail Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement [of the adolescent] in the decision making. —Laurence Steinberg and Ann Levine More about this quote Tags: power rules rebellion authority youth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Tags: truth rebellion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made. —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: history rebellion progress disobedience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email