“A rebel is born, a rebel is dead and in his death many others come to life. This is how we get revolutionists one generation after another”

“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!”

“He is blind to the dead, to the burning villages, to the starving children. As is the Rebel. Two blind armies, able to see nothing but one another.”

“True to the meaning of the rebel as one who renounces authority, he seeks primarily not the substitution of one political system for another. He may favor such a political change, but it is not his chief goal. He rebels for the sake of a vision of life and society which he is convinced is critically important for himself and his fellows. … the rebel fights not only for the relief of his fellow men but also for his personal integrity. For him these are but two sides of the same coin.”

“We admitted that everything living is born of the dead. For if the soul existed before birth, and in coming to life and being born can be born only from death and dying, must she not after death continue to exist, since she has to be born again?”

“Many rebelled against God. But no one, including atheists and the devil, can ever rebel against happiness. It is the final destination for all.”

“Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”

“if we don’t rebel, if we’re not physically in an active rebellion, then it’s spiritual death.”

“the little roly-poly Russian-born rebel of the canvas.”

“True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers, and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life”