Rebellious acts can be the maximum expression of contained freedom. And here we present some reflections that prove it.
Rebellion is a part of human nature that always lives within us waiting to be explored and released .
It is born and grows when we feel somehow locked up, unable to express ourselves or do what we most want, when we begin to perceive ourselves as withered flowers before the imposition of others. We can even see it as a natural part of adolescence, as an example of young people trying to find their place in the world and their own voice in the face of the noise of society.
But it is the signs of rebellion throughout history and the courage of those who freed themselves from their chains, which leads us to this article where you will learn the best phrases of rebellion.
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Phrases and reflections on rebellion
Perhaps sometimes it is a capricious attitude typical of adolescents and that is why it is not fully accepted, but it is the rebel movements that have brought great changes to the world .
1. Rebellion is the only worthy refuge for intelligence against imbecility. (Arturo Perez-Reverte)
Rebellion is sometimes an act of daring when a person arms himself with courage.
2. When those who command lose their shame, those who obey lose their respect. (Cardinal de Retz)
Sometimes rebellion is just a reflection of human impudence.
3. Rebellion can be a wonderful gift. It is rebellion that triggers creativity, exploration, progress and revolutions. (Lucas Leys)
Controversial and different manifestations generate great results.
4. Young people today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, devour their food, and disrespect their teachers. (Socrates)
Socrates posing the dark side of rebellion as the highest representation of disrespect.
5. Don’t hold the spoon with your left hand. Do not put your elbows on the table. Fold the napkin well. That, for starters. (Gabriel Celaya)
Rebellion comes when people get tired of being repressed.
6. Youth without rebellion is precocious servitude. (Joseph Engineers)
Youth and rebellious actions go hand in hand.
7. A true spirit of rebellion is one who seeks happiness in this life. (Henrik Johan Ibsen)
Doing what you love, instead of what others consider ‘right’, you will be considered the greatest of rebels.
8. To rebel is to give light and form to the cry of new ideas. (Joe Ar)
When you express your creativity there is no limit that you cannot break down.
9. I’d rather be a rebel than a slave. I urge women to rebellion. (Meryl Streep)
To achieve freedom it is necessary to question the system.
10. I feel the need to take my mother as an example, and to respect her; it is true that in most cases my mother is an example for me, but rather an example not to follow. (Anna Frank)
Sometimes the best examples are those that we should not follow.
11. Rebellion. But rebellion is not a grand gesture. It is not a shout, it is not an insult, it is not a stone, it is not a bad answer, it is much deeper. (Julio Anguita)
We must not brand rebellion as just an act of recklessness. It is a call of necessity.
12. Rebellion is the original virtue of man. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
No one wants to be imprisoned of their own free will.
13. Rebellion will close doors but will open many minds. (Daniel Olguin)
Our actions are not always to the liking of some, but we can attract the attention of more important people.
14. Outwardly I was everything a well-bred young lady should be but inside I screamed in rebellion. (Gloria Stewart)
The mind will always be rebellious because nobody can limit it.
15. Regarding disciplinary power, it is exercised by becoming invisible; instead it imposes on those to whom it subjects a mandatory visibility principle. (Michel Foucault)
Why do we have to submit to a system that orders us to be exposed, when they are not?
16. But don’t you see that all life, all creation in whatever field, all act of love, is nothing more than a rebellion against extinction, no matter whether it is false or true, whether it works or not? (Jose Donoso)
Living, in itself, is an act of rebellion against death.
17. If the rebels could succeed they would discover that they had destroyed themselves. (Clive StaplesLewis)
Some causes are forgotten when you come to power.
18. Rebellion is the daughter of a determined mind. (Giancarlo Pizza)
There are rebellious acts that are calculated in great detail.
19. The people, the fire and the water can never be tamed. (Phocylids)
A dominated people is a people that has surrendered to resignation.
20. I am talking about a feminism that does not come to you from books or from contact with feminism as a political ideology, but rather comes from a deep rebellion of yourself against patriarchal mandates, because you refuse to abide by them. (Maria Galindo)
In the face of injustice, it is better to act against it than to silence it.
21. A little rebellion from time to time is a good thing. (Thomas Jefferson)
Rebellions have led to the advancement of civilization.
22. Being rebellious is showing that you live with your heart. (Fate Avalos)
When you live life your way there is no one who can force you to do otherwise.
23. They will say that madness is out of fashion, they will say that people are bad and do not deserve, but I will continue dreaming pranks. Perhaps multiply loaves and fishes. (Silvio Rodriguez)
When you stop listening to the criticism of others, you can have total power over your life.
24. Thinking differently is not a crime, it is a right and a privilege that we human beings have. (Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
Thinking differently is what allows us to discover and create new things to evolve.
25. Until they are aware of their strength, they will not rebel, and until after they have rebelled, they will not be aware. This is the problem. (George Orwell)
We can achieve a lot unconsciously. Imagine how many we can do if we prepare for it.
26. Rebellion and only rebellion is the creator of light, and that light can only take three paths: poetry, freedom and love. (Andre Breton)
An interesting vision about where the rebellion overflows.
27. It was better to die in rebellion than to live in slavery. (Isabel Allende)
Living repressed does not let us live in reality, since we are under the will of another.
28. The prolonged captivity, the uncertainty of the world, the habit of obeying, had remembered in his heart the seeds of rebellion. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
The birth of a rebellious act begins by looking at all that has been lost.
29. Rebellion is the unconscious act of making your dreams and ideals come true. (Anonymous)
Are you rebellious in this life?
30. Thinking against the current of time is heroic; Say it, crazy. (Eugene Ionesco)
Remember that breakthroughs were once considered heresy; and its creators, some crazy.
31. Until when will the fury of despots be called justice and the justice of the people, barbarism or rebellion? (Maximilien Robespierre)
Not all that glitters is gold.
32. Almost all geniuses know as a phase of their development the existence of a feeling of hatred, revenge and rebellion against everything that exists, against everything that is not being done. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
The motivation of the geniuses is to break with the stigmas of not needing new advances in the world.
33. Insist, persist, resist and never give up.
A great motivational phrase to continue in our fight.
34. I love you because your mouth knows how to shout rebellion. (Mario Benedictetti)
Look for a person who doesn’t stop you, but pushes you forward.
35. A rebel is someone who does not react against society, who understands the whole game of it and simply slips away from it. Society becomes irrelevant to him. He is not against her. And that’s the beauty of rebellion: it’s freedom. (osho)
It is not about tearing down society, but about avoiding being consumed by its negative aspects.
36. The only way to deal with this world without freedom is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. (Albert Camus)
Nothing better expresses the feeling of rebellion than this phrase.
37. The rebellion consists of looking at a rose until the eyes are pulverized. (Alejandra Pizarnik)
Finding beauty in simple details in a world that praises superficial beauty is also an act of rebellion.
38. If you don’t like what is growing around you, you need to consider changing what you are planting. (John Hunter)
If you don’t like something about your environment, then do your best not to further contribute to it.
39, The mere act of dreaming is the greatest rebellion. (Citlalli Vargas Contreras)
In dreams we can create the world we want.
40. A government that uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it. (Fernando Gamboa-González)
Corrupt governments foster criminal rebellion.
41. Art is a rebellion against destiny. (André Malraux)
Artistic creations can last through time and space.
42. Art is man’s rebellion against the evil stupidity of everyday events. (Alejandro Dolina)
Through art you can express any feeling or human reality.
43. Are you inviting spirits of fear, anger, hate and rebellion from the enemy? Or are you inviting spiritual gifts of love, joy, peace, and patience from God? (John Hunter)
Rebellion has two faces.
44. Our first parents were expelled from paradise, condemned to give birth in pain, to work with the sweat of their brows, and to die. And all for a simple apple? (Manual Vincent)
The biggest rebel push in history.
45. The rebel will save the ship, when all have agreed to die. (Analy Zarraga)
Rebellion drives us forward.
46. If they give you a lined piece of paper, write on the back. (Juan Ramon Jimenez)
Follow the rules until you can understand how the world is run and live by your own principles.
47. There has to be a rebellion against conformism, against respectability, because the respectable man is the mediocre man. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Settling does not always represent the best decision to be made.
48. The world, when it comes to us at the moment we are born, is already made up, masked, pre-interpreted. And the conformists will not be the only ones not to notice; rebellious beings, eager to oppose everything and everyone, do not realize to what extent they themselves are obedient; they will only rebel against what has been interpreted (pre-interpreted) as a reason worthy of rebellion. (Milan Kudera)
Not all people have the spirit to do things differently, because they are constantly afraid of retaliation from others.
49. For a sensitive and proud child, the public school system is as humiliating as that of a prison. I was always in rebellion. (Isadora Duncan)
Even the institutions dedicated to educating us can destroy our spirit.
50. The intellectual tradition is one of servility towards power, and if I did not betray it I would be ashamed of myself. (Noam Chomski)
Corresponding to the power of a tyrant makes us his accomplices.
51. One day the anvil, tired of being an anvil, will become a hammer. (Mikhail Bakunin)
When you get tired of the direction of your life, you may be able to look for something better.
52. The lesson, for boys like you, is that there can be more honor in submission and obedience than in reckless rebellion. (Ken Follett)
You have to be careful with rebellions, because not all of them have good ends.
53. If we go to Him in an attitude of rebellion, indifference and pride, we will not hear what He wants to say. To listen we must display a proper attitude toward God. (Charles F.Stanley)
There are times that instead of being rebellious, we just have to open our hearts.
54. Society does not tolerate private matters if they show signs of rebellion. (Sandor Marai)
Society judges everything that is not in the same current.
55. Do we not have in us a perpetual inclination, despite the excellence of our judgment, to violate what is the Law, simply because we understand that it is the Law? (Edgar Allan Poe)
We all have a little spark of eternal rebellion inside of us.
56. And so the rebellion of a dream springs up in the soul, which is like a surly dog that growls at its owner. (Jose Angel Buesa)
Dreams can go against the idealism of some. But that doesn’t mean they’re wrong.
57. My life has been about challenging authority, which I was taught as a child. Life is pure noise between two abysmal silences. Silence before birth, silence after death. (Isabel Allende)
Life is to be enjoyed.
58. Sow a small seed of rebellion, and you will determine a harvest of freedoms. (Práxedis G. Guerrero)
A cry of rebellion can represent several steps to freedom.
59. We walk together, we die together, rebels forever. (Will Smith)
Surround yourself with people who have an open mind and are not afraid of changes in the world.
60. When you are born poor, being studious is the greatest act of rebellion against the system. (Thomas Bulat.)
Breaking down the barriers that our origin represents is also a great rebellion that changes the course of our lives.
61. The right of rebellion is sacred because its exercise is essential to break down the obstacles that oppose the right to live. (Ricardo Flores Magon)
An interesting consideration about what rebellion represents for the course of people’s lives.
62. Passivity and meekness do not imply kindness, just as rebellion does not mean savagery. (Práxedis G. Guerrero)
Things are not always what they seem.
63. Rebellion is the daughter of experience. (Leonardo da Vinci)
To succeed in a rebellion you must know what you are fighting against.
64. When you are young, you must be a revolutionary, not just rebel. Being psychologically revolutionary means not accepting any model. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
When imposition of any kind is not accepted, then we graduate as rebels.
65. When there are reforms and adjustments, there are also strikes, demonstrations and rebellions. (Nouriel Roubini)
With each new rule a new rebel manifestation is generated.
66. … And above all, always be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against anyone in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary. (Ernesto “Che” Guevara)
We must never remain silent in the face of injustice.
67. When the government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties. (Marquis de Lafayette)
Uprisings are expected when trying to repress the people.
68. It is not suffering, but the hope of better things that incites rebellions. (Eric Hofer)
The purpose of every uprising should be to get something better.
69. Contrary to the usual pattern, I have gradually become more rebellious as I get older. (Bertrand Russell)
Over time we can see things in the world that we were previously unaware of.
70. As long as the world exists, there will be injustices. And if no one opposed and no one rebelled, those injustices would last forever. (Clarence Darrow)
Injustices are only resolved when they are exposed and their elimination is demanded.
To the classic question “what do you do?” I always answer “basically I am a psychologist”. In fact, my academic training has revolved around the psychology of development, education and community, a field of study influenced my volunteer activities, as well as my first work experiences in personal services.