Rebellion Quotes

Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

What is a rebel? A man who says no, but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. He is also a man who says yes, from the moment he makes his first gesture of rebellion.[Qu’est-ce qu’un homme révolté? Un homme qui dit non. Mais s’il refuse, il ne renonce pas: c’est aussi un homme qui dit oui, dès son premier mouvement.]

You’re only a rebel from the waist downwards.

With rebellion, awareness is born.[La conscience vient au jour avec la révolte.]

What do you think those rebels are? They’re bandits, preying on the law-abiding peasants.

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself.[Se révolter contre la nature revient à se révolter contre soi-même.]

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

The revolts had no foundation in popular will, but in individuals’ greed for power.

The rebel does not ask for life, but for reasons for living.[Le révolté ne demande pas la vie, mais les raisons de la vie.]

The difference between a patriot and a rebel depends on who is in power at the moment.

Rebellion is born of the spectacle of irrationality, confronted with an unjust and incomprehensible condition.[La révolte naît du spectacle de la déraison, devant une condition injuste et incompréhensible.]