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#1

“If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Farnham's Freehold

tags: defiance, hopelessness, lost-causes

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#2

“A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

tags: communication, preservation, suicide

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#3

“If you’re going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.”
― Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice

tags: act, defiance

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#4

“I could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

tags: fool, foolishness, life-and-living

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#5

“I don't think I am heartless. Do you?'
'You have done too many foolish things during the last fortnight to be entitled to give yourself that name, Dorian,' answered Lord Henry with his sweet melancholy smile.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: foolishness, heartlessness

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#6

“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: fate, nightmare, struggle

2186 likes

#7

“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: fate, love, people

1823 likes

#8

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: fate, history

1819 likes

#9

“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together?
Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”
― Emery Allen

tags: coincidence, fate, serendipity, strange, universe

783 likes

#10

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
― Fernando Pessoa

tags: hope, longing, pain, regret, yearning

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#11

“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

tags: pain

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#12

“I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart. ”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

tags: goodbye, heart, love, pain

1094 likes

#13

“The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, marxism, radicalism, rebellion, revolution, socialism

280 likes

#14

“Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

tags: entropy, rebel, rebellion, revolution

227 likes

#15

“He who obeys, does not listen to himself!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: rebellion

184 likes

#16

“‎I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

tags: gale, katniss, rebellion

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#17

“Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we still can, then maybe one of your children may elect to do so in the future, when it will be far more riskier — and much, much harder.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: action, administration, censor, censors, censorship, change, cheating, children, civil-liberties, civil-rights, control, corrupt, corrupt-politics, corruption, democracy, democratic, dissent, elect, elections, equality, fair, freedom, freedom-of-speech, future, government, hard, human-rights, injustice, justice, liberty, peace, people, politics, public, rebellion, regulations, revolt, revolution, rigged, rigging, risk, riskier, social-change, social-justice, stand-up, suppress, system, take-a-stand, unfair-elections, united, unity, vote, voting, world, youth

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#18

“Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of all revolutions. Without it, justice seems inconceivable to the rebel's mind. There comes a time, however, when justice demands the suspension of freedom. Then terror, on a grand or small scale, makes its appearance to consummate the revolution. Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. But one day nostalgia takes up arms and assumes the responsibility of total guilt; in other words, adopts murder and violence.”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel

tags: freedom, guilt, justice, nostalgia, rebellion, revolution, terror

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#19

“With rebellion, awareness is born.”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel

tags: rebellion

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#20

“I hope they pardoned them. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that i wish it to be always kept alive....I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: rebellion

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#21

“Human security depends on a system where each rational individual calculates that it is more profitable not to rebel.”
― Mark Gough

tags: rebellion, security, social-norms, society

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#22

“The best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

tags: anarchism, oscar-wilde, poverty, rebellion, socialism

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#23

“Like most people in rebellion, he was more than half in love with what he was rebelling against.”
― Anthony Powell

tags: anger, love, orwell, rebellion, resistance

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#24

“Nothing is certain. Many ways lead to destruction. You will be tested beyond your capacity to endure. Should you survive the trials ahead, you will be a husband without a wife, a father without a son, a hero without a quest, and a king without a country. But take heart. Some must lose the way to find it. Some must be empty before they are full, weak before they are strong, and blind before they can see.”
― Brandon Mull, Seeds of Rebellion

tags: bravery, hero, heroism, ispirational, rebellion, revolution

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#25

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
― Che Guevara

tags: bravery, carpe-diem, commitment, courage, here-and-now, indiviuality, inspirational, passion

728 likes

#26

“I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

tags: courage, experience, life, living, strength

543 likes

#27

“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: courage, empowerment, enterprise

647 likes

#28

“Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.”
― Terry Goodkind, Wizard's First Rule

tags: courage, decision, goodkind

458 likes

#29

“True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle; it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: cool, courage, experience, fool, glamorous, lifestyle, misunderstood, original, pioneers, rebels, risk, standing-out, take-a-stand

436 likes

#30

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”
"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.”
― Ovid, Metamorphoses

tags: courage, inspiration

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