Rebels

Famous quotes containing the word rebels:

    As nature requires whirlwinds and cyclones to release its excessive force in a violent revolt against its own existence, so the spirit requires a demonic human being from time to time whose excessive strength rebels against the community of thought and the monotony of morality ... only by looking at those beyond its limits does humanity come to know its own utmost limits.
    Stefan Zweig (18811942)

    Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
    Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “Poor Esther!” said he gloomily. “She has been brought up among men, and is not used to harness. If things go wrong she will rebel, and a woman who rebels is lost.”
    Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)