What is rebel?

Famous quotes containing the word rebel:

“I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood.... I love her tenderly, even to her warts and her spots. I am French only by this great city: the glory of France, and one of the noblest ornaments of the world.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.”
—Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)