“To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.”
Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year
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Paul Stewart (July 10, 2005) "The Used gladly sold their souls", The Sunday Telegraph, News Limited, p. 20.

As recorded in filmed interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsfYAJ3dQyY&feature=player_embedded (1979) with Dylan Taite in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Context: All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?

“Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don’t know any better.”
Interview in Rolling Stone magazine, no. 684 (16 June 1994)
1990s, Rolling Stone interview (1994)

Written in 1935, as quoted in The Ghost in the Little House, ch. 2, by William V. Holtz (1993).

The Crisis No. III.
1770s, The American Crisis (1776–1783)

"No Religion is an Island", p. 264
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)

“Rebel you against sadness. The spirit of the rebels is fiery and thrives on emotion.”
Original: Ribellatevi alla tristezza. Lo spirito dei ribelli è ardente e vive di emozioni.
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