“We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past—Jefferson and Paine, Emerson and Thoreau—while we silence the rebels of the present.”

“Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.”

“The exousia of political power … is a rebel exousia, an angel in revolt against God.”

“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”

“The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.”

“We are quick to forgive and forget about the past, or our memories when we find the present satisfying.”

“I rebel — therefore we exist.”

“Life has little breathing time; and, even when we do for a moment reflect, it is rather on our present than our past : the pains and pleasures of memory are put aside as quickly as the poem which celebrates them.”

“We should not forget any of those who paid for our present freedom in one way or another.”

“Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels." In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general.”