And if we burn, you burn with us.

The old disease, thought Rubashov. Revolutionaries should not think through other people's minds. Or, perhaps they should? Or even ought to? How can one change the world if one identifies oneself with everybody? How else can one change it? He who understands and forgives -- where would he find a motive to act? Where would he not?

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events, so she changed the subject. I think I have finally worked out what you were trying to tell me, years ago, about being intelligent, she said.The Constable brightened all at once. Pleased to hear it.The Vickys have an elaborate code of morals and conduct. It grew out of the moral squalor of an earlier generation, just as the original Victorians were preceded by the Georgians and the Regency. The old guard believe in that code because they came to it the hard way. They raise their children to believe in that code– but their children believe it for entirely different reasons.They believe it, the Constable said, because they have been indoctrinated to believe it.Yes. Some of them never challenge it– they grow up to be smallminded people, who can tell you what they believe but not why they believe it. Others become disillusioned by the hypocrisy of the society and rebel– as did Elizabeth Finkle-McGraw.Which path do you intend to take, Nell? said the Constable, sounding very interested. Conformity or rebellion?Neither one. Both ways are simple-minded– they are only for people who cannot cope with contradiction and ambiguity.

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.

You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.

Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Rebellion leads to ruin.

Man rejection of the Truth is the root of his rebellion.

You ruin is your rebellion against God.

If we neither regard the deeds nor respect the works of God, it leads to rebellion.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

A little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does not contain at least three pupils who can be counted on to oppose the teachers authority and loudly and persistently to question everything he says.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.

When I refuse to obey an unjust law, I do not contest the right of the majority to command, but I simply appeal from the sovereignty of the people to the sovereignty of mankind.

Rebel, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.