Famous quotes containing the word rebel:
“No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.”
—Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)
“It was evident that, both on account of the feudal system and the aristocratic government, a private man was not worth so much in Canada as in the United States; and, if your wealth in any measure consists in manliness, in originality and independence, you had better stay here. How could a peaceable, freethinking man live neighbor to the Forty-ninth Regiment? A New-Englander would naturally be a bad citizen, probably a rebel, there,—certainly if he were already a rebel at home.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
““... Rebel against the flesh and bone,
The word of the blood, the wily skin,
And the maggot no man can slay.””
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)