Quotes tagged “rebellion”

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Use once. Die once.

— activist saying about insecure communication

The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just keep your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.

 

— Frank Zappa

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that enough good men do nothing.

— Edmund Burke

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

— Margaret Mead

We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit . . . . if we appear to seek the unattainable, then let it be known that we do so to avoid the unimaginable.

— the Port Huron Statement, 11-June-1962, Students for a Democratic Society