Rebel
Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops.
One who rebels.
To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion.
To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt.
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Rebel Quotations
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
Aristotle
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
Albert Camus
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
Thomas Paine
Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
Alexander Pope
I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
Elvis Presley
I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.
Angelina Jolie
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
Quentin Crisp
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas Carlyle
Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
H. G. Wells
I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
Waylon Jennings
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
David Herbert Lawrence
When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
Jim Carrey
I was not cut out to be a rebel.
Gene Tierney
It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.
Taylor Caldwell
He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Lawrence Durrell
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
Pierre Corneille
The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.
Kate Winslet
I'm a real rebel with a cause.
Nina Simone
I'm kind of in between a goody-goody and a rebel. I'm not bad, but I'm not good either. I'm a little crazy.
Michelle Wie
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
Chaim Potok
Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I don't think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, there's always a library.
Michelle Rodriguez
When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.
Jerry B. Jenkins
Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.
Cathy Guisewite
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
Walter Isaacson
The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.
Sara Blakely
I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.
Anna Paquin
I was a real rebel. I got expelled.
Katie Price
That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.
Shirley Manson
I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.
Emmanuelle Beart
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Rebel Translations
rebel in Afrikaans is rebel
rebel in Danish is rejse sig
rebel in Dutch is oproerling, muiter, rebel
rebel in Finnish is kapinoida
rebel in French is cabrer, rebelle
rebel in Italian is ribelle, indignare
rebel in Latin is insurgo insurgi insurrectum
rebel in Spanish is rebelde
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