All Quotes By Tag: Rebellion

“We never belonged to a country we could sell out.’By the time Jeong-il made that declaration, he had achieved perfect grades and attendance for eight years running, could correctly pronounce ‘certainly’ in English, explain the present perfect tense, and read and write cursive letters. Not to mention he had never shoplifted, shaken anyone down for money, or gotten in a fistfight. He avoided people altogether. Jeong-il was always alone. Even the teachers didn’t know how to relate to him. None of my other friends tried to get to know him either.”

“Knowledge is power. The moment the masses acquire this power, control fades. And when control fades, chaos erupts.”

“When there’s darkness, there are all kinds of evil things happening, rebellion is there, and corruption is operating.”

“You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have and did not have when you made your first communion. It was a feeling of consecration to a duty toward all of the oppressed of the world which would be as difficult and embarrasing to speak about as religious experience and yet it was as authentic as the feeling you had when you heard Bach, or stood in Chartres Cathedral or the Cathedral at León and saw the light coming through the great windows; or when you saw Mantegna and Greco and Brueghel in the Prado. It gave you a part in something that you could believe in wholly and completely and in which you felt an absolute brotherhood with the others who were engaged in it. It was something that you had never known before but that you had experienced now and you gave such importance to it and the reasons for it that you own death seemed of complete unimportance; only a thing to be avoided because it would interfere with the performance of your duty. But the best thing was that there was something you could do about this feeling and this necessity too. You could fight.”

“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.”

“If we neither regard the deeds nor respect the works of God, it leads to rebellion.”

“Hope?” She eyed Cassian dubiously. “Is that the best the Rebel Intelligence can do?” Cassian might as well have shrugged. “Rebellions are built on hope,” he said”

“The biggest act of rebellion right now is remaining defiantly hopeful.”

“You’ll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I’m just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels… I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.”

“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.”

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

“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 me, years ago, about being intelligent,” she said.The Constable brightened all at once. “Pleased to hear it.”The Vickys have an elaborate code of morals and conduct. It grew out of the moral squalor of an earlier generation, just as the original Victorians were preceded by the Georgians and the Regency. The old guard believe in that code because they came to it the hard way. They raise their children to believe in that code– but their children believe it for entirely different reasons.”They believe it,” the Constable said, “because they have been indoctrinated to believe it.”Yes. Some of them never challenge it– they grow up to be smallminded people, who can tell you what they believe but not why they believe it. Others become disillusioned by the hypocrisy of the society and rebel– as did Elizabeth Finkle-McGraw.”Which path do you intend to take, Nell?” said the Constable, sounding very interested. “Conformity or rebellion?”Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded– they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.”

“Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.”

“You can’t be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.”

“There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.”