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Your Quotes for 26 October 2005 - Rebel

Rebel Without a Cause debuted fifty years ago today at New York City. I missed it, being a trifle young at the time, but it put a face on teen rebellion - a rebellion I joined a dozen years later. (I think I was supposed to grow out of it, but that's another story.) Here are some quotes on rebels and rebellion.

Every act of rebelling expresses a nostalgia for innocence.
     - Albert Camus, 1913 - 1960

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.
     - Clarence Seward Darrow, 1857 - 1938

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, 1890 - 1969

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subject are rebels from principle.
     - Edmund Burke, 1728 - 1797

Academia forcibly tells you about all the great men and revolutionaries, and rebels, especially the rebels, who have changed the world for the better. But they wouldn't notice him were he standing right in front of them.
     - Eli Khamorov

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.
     - Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826

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