
“The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Source: The Hunger Games
“The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.”
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“With rebellion, awareness is born.”
As quoted in The Estranged God : Modern Man's Search for Belief (1966) by Anthony T. Padovano, p. 109
The Rebel (1951)
“Civilization begins with a rebellion.”
Source: Power and Innocence (1972), Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel
Context: Civilization begins with a rebellion. Prometheus, one of the Titans, steals fire from the gods on Mount Olympus and brings it as a gift to man, marking the birth of human culture. For this rebellion Zeus sentences him to be chained to Mount Caucasus where vultures consume his liver during the day and at night it grows back only to be again eaten away the next day. This is a tale of the agony of the creative individual, whose nightly rest only resuscitates him so that he can endure his agonies the next day.
“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.”
Benjamin Franklin proposed this as the motto on the Great Seal of the United States http://www.greatseal.com/committees/firstcomm/reverse.html. It is often falsely attributed to Thomas Jefferson because he endorsed the motto. It may have been inspired by a similar quote made by Simon Bradstreet after the 1688 overthrow of Edmund Andros. Bradstreet's quote is found in two sources: Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State Convention: assembled May 4th, 1853 (1853) by the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, p. 502 and A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore (1883) by Samuel Adams Drake. p. 426.
Decade unclear
“The greatest expression of rebellion is joy.”
Acceptance speech for Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog at the Creative Art Emmys
“Rebellion is necessary for development of character.”
"Prof. Robertson Davies: Courteous Conservative".
Conversations with Robertson Davies (1989)
On the issue of the Malabar rebellion
EMS as a historian
To be found on quotes sites, but always without citation.
Disputed