Caesar Borgia Quotes

What is a rebel? A man who says no.

We've always been hardcore rebels.

... an act of insurrection.

Rebellion! the very word is a confession; an avowal of tyranny, outrage, and oppression. It is taken from the despot's code, and has no terror for others than slavish souls.

This House has heard discord and rebellion encouraged and avowed from more than one quarter.

Insurrection is an art.

fueled above all by the resistance of the forces and ideas opposed to it.

Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow.

No one man can give up the rebellion for any other man.

They (tyrants) should be attacked, not as ordinary enemies, but as assassins and rebellious brigands. Kings, aristocrats, tyrants, whoever they may be, are slaves in revolt against the sovereign of the land, who is the human race, and against the legislator of the Universe, who is Nature.

It is authority that provokes revolution....

Rebellion is the necessary result of injustice. It may not always achieve its purpose, or be intended to do so, but a conviction of injustice endured must precede articulate rebellion. Nor is it always certain that injustice will be followed by rebellion – it would be very much better for the world if this was the case. But where the victims of aggression or custom are ignorant and disunited, the opportunities for reasoned and effective revolt are practically reduced to nothing…

An armed uprising is inevitable and the time for it fully ripe.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is ... the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

It is needless to trouble your Lordship with daily Publications of determined resolutions not to obey the Acts of Parliament … The Country People are exercising in Arms… and getting Magazines of Arms and Ammunition … People are resorting to this town [Boston] for Protection…. Sedition flows copiously from the Pulpits. The Commissioners of Customs have thought it no longer safe or prudent to remain at Salem.

Marxism comprises many principles, but in the final analysis they can all be brought back to a single sentence: it is right to rebel.

If you believe in astrology, I'm a Virgo, so I'm very controlling; I'm very neat, and I'm very organized.

If astrology is real, I guess I'm a pretty quintessential Virgo.

I've never really subscribed to the theory that repression breeds rebellion. I don't think that's really true.

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

It means we're on your side." That's what Bonnie said. I have people on my side? What side? Am I unwittingly the face of the hoped-for rebellion? Has the mockingjay on my pin become a symbol of resistance? If so, my side's not doing too well.

To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.

‎What is to prevent, say, an uprising?

The air's warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.