rebellion quotes

Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

-Anonymous
Scottish proverb.

If Conservative Backbench MPs wanttoget on inpolitics they will have to find a foothold in the narrow strip of land that lies between sycophancy and rebellion.

- Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker (of Dorking)
  Queen's Speech in the House of Commons.

Hath the L as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the L? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquityand idolatry.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORD1 Samuel15:22^3.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

-James Branch Cabell
  Jurgen.

As I am a woman and women do not count in the State, I refuse to be counted. Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

- Emily Wilding Davison
  Comment on uncompleted Census paper, quoted in Gertrude Colmore The Life of Emily  Wilding Davison (1913).

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.

-Thomas Jefferson
  Letter to  James Madison, 30  Jan.

We must not regard political consequences, however formidable they may be. If rebellion was the certain consequence, we are bound to say,'Justitia fiat, ruat coelum' (Let Justice be done, though the skies may fall).' See Ferdinand I 320:1.

-William Murray, 1st Earl Mansfield
   Judgement against the sentence imposed on  John Wilkes for publishing the anti-ministerial political newspaper North Briton, 28  Apr.

We sing the love of danger.Courage, rashness, and rebellion are the elements of our poetry. Hitherto literature has tended to exalt thoughtful immobility, ecstasy, and sleep, whereas we are for aggressive movement, febrile insomnia, mortal leaps, and blows with the fist.We proclaim that the world is richer for a new beautyof speed, and our praise isfor themanat the wheel. There is no beauty now save in struggle, no masterpiece can be anything but aggressive, and hence we glorify war, militarism and patriotism.

- Emilio FilippoTomasso Marinetti
  Manifesto of Futurism. Quoted in Denis Mack Smith Italy:  A Modern History (1959), p.270.

Whatever isfunny issubversive, every joke isultimatelya custard pie† A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack uponmorality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.

- George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair Orwell
  'The  Art of Donald McGill'.

There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property. So it is through property that we shall strike the enemy† Be militant each in your own way† I incite this meeting to rebellion.

- Emmeline ne  e  Goulden Pankhurst
  Speech, Royal Albert Hall,17 Oct.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the righttoa child with the obligationto becometheservant of a man. 780

- George Bernard Shaw
  Getting Married, preface,'The Right to Motherhood'.