The Rebel Sell Quotes & Sayings

Tiffany listened, at the end of the shadowy wood, to the story of a little world where nothing grew, where no sun shone, and where everything had to come from somewhere else. It was a world that took, and gave nothing back except fear. It raided - and people learned to stay in bed when they heard strange noises at night, because if anyone gave her trouble, the Queen could control their dreams. — Terry Pratchett

One doesn't need to be taught fear when one is the hunted. — Nenia Campbell

In the 1960s, it took months before someone figured out they could sell tie-dyed shirts and bell bottoms to anyone who wanted to rebel. In the 1990s, it took weeks to start selling flannel shirts and Doc Martens to people in the Deep South. Now people are hired by corporations to go to bars and clubs and observe what the counterculture is into and have it on the shelves in the mall stores right as it becomes popular. The counterculture, the indie fans, and the underground stars - they are the driving force behind capitalism. They are the engine. This brings us to the point: Competition among consumers is the turbine of capitalism. — David McRaney

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual. — Maximilien De Robespierre

The only peace that can endure is a peace that can be defended, — Benjamin Netanyahu

Any object that lost its nanotags automatically became government property, so hard-working people and those who had lived for generations in ancestral homes here would see their properties expropriated. The farmers who had brought their produce to sell no longer owned that produce. The government knew this would drive people into the rebel cause in droves, but they had no alternative. Their orders came from Earth, after all. Earth was very far away, and the Rights Owners there would not be sympathetic. — Karl Schroeder

Well, games of chance and I are no strangers. This trading in papers . . . is it a bit like gambling?" "It's exactly like gambling, Prince Jalan. — Mark Lawrence

Christian Love is when you care about people for who they are and seek to encourage them as they walk on the same difficult path that you are walking on. Everyone has struggles in this life and it is a Christian's duty to help others around them and look out for the interests of others before their own. — Anya VonderLuft

When I'm recording a song, I wake up and I'm thinking about it. I go to sleep and I'm thinking about it. — Joel Plaskett

It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. — Brenda Ueland

From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains are exactly alike, and the greatest source of error in the assertions of Benedict and Lombroso has been the finding of this or that variation in a criminal's brains, and maintaining such to be characteristic of the 'criminal constitution,' unmindful of the fact that like variations of structure may and do exist in the brains of normal, moral persons. — Edward Anthony Spitzka

We Irish Catholics know very well how raucous happiness displeases God, so there is much evidence of guilt in all we say and do, but nonetheless it is said and done. — Morrissey

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. — Stephen Hawking