Profoundly inspirational rebel quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.
Famous Rebel Quotes
It’s not rebels that make trouble, but trouble that makes rebels. Ruth Messinger
I’ve never really had any barrier to break I guess. I don’t really have anything to rebel against. I’m quite lucky.
I rebel; therefore I exist. Albert Camus
I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. Walter Isaacson
It’s not rebels that make trouble, but trouble that makes rebels.
I would rather be a rebel than a slave. Emmeline Pankhurst
There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality.
Rebels and non conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change. Indira Gandhi
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.
There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul. Anytime anybody tells me the trend is such and such, I go the opposite direction. I hate the idea of trends. I hate imitation; I have a reverence for individuality. Clint Eastwood
We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won’t let this world die without a fight.
We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream, and we won’t let this world die without a fight. Albert Camus
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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
I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.
Rebels learn the rules better than the rule makers do. Rebels learn where the holes are, where the rules can best be breached. Become an expert at the rules. Then break them with creativity and style. Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen.
There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul. Clint Eastwood
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.
I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause. Angelina Jolie
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. Criss Jami
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Every woman is a rebel. Oscar Wilde
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.
In order to exist, man must rebel. Albert Camus
Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.
What is a rebel? A man who says no. Albert Camus
People are going to think what they want to think. I let them. You can’t control perception. It’s a losing game so I don’t play. I let them lose; lose themselves in their own fantasies of what they want me to be. A rebel, an angel, a romantic, a heart breaker, a boy, a man. Perhaps I am all of those things. Perhaps I’m none. But what I am is for me to find out, not to be dictated to me. It’s for me to know
Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth. Criss Jami
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.
Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are. Niels Bohr
If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. Oscar Wilde
We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past while we silence the rebels of the present.
Rebels are the people who refuse the seen for the unseen. Anne Douglas Sedgwick
Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.
The world has only as much power over you as you give it. Rebel. Go beyond duality. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
In my heart, I’m independent, a bit of a rebel, a nonconformist. Nicole Kidman , Rebel quotes heart
Rebel, rebel, you’ve torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.
When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles Frank Herbert
You don’t have to burn books, you don’t have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.
If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system. That’s much more powerful than rebelling outside the system. Marie Lu
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.
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist. Uta Hagen
I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel.
People are going to think what they want to think. I let them. You can’t control perception. It’s a losing game so I don’t play. I let them lose; lose themselves in their own fantasies of what they want me to be. A rebel, an angel, a romantic, a heart breaker, a boy, a man. Perhaps I am all of those things. Perhaps I’m none. But what I am is for me to find out, not to be dictated to me. It’s for me to know. Sergei Polunin
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man’s nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.
As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason. Thomas Browne
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.
Here in America, we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. Dwight D. Eisenhower
They stick you with those names, those labels rebel or whatever; whatever they like to use. Because they need a label; they need a name. They need something to put the price tag on the back of.
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
If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don’t show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.
Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation. Arthur Miller
Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional.
You don’t have to burn books, you don’t have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self. Dhani Harrison
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.
Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it. Thomas Paine
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.
Don’t rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground. Tomas Kalnoky
I’m the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.
It takes more than going down to the video store and renting Easy Rider to be a rebel. Dennis Hopper
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.
Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional. Elsa Peretti
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man’s nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become Golems they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life. Erich Fromm
My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.
If you are not their slaves, you are rebels. C. L. R. James
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself. Cathy Guisewite
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.
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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.
Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power. Pierre Corneille
To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.
If you hate your parents, the man, or the establishment, don’t show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do. Henry Rollins
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.
My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work! Arthur Conan Doyle
From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.
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
A hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.
