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  • People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion.

  • Love of goodness without love of learning degenerates into simple-mindedness. Love of knowledge without love of learning degenerates into utter lack of principle. Love of faithfulness without love of learning degenerates into injurious disregard of consequences. Love of uprightness without love of learning degenerates into harshness. Love of courage without love of learning degenerates into insubordination. Love of strong character without love of learning degenerates into mere recklessness.

    Love   Strong   Learning  
  • In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter.

    Art   Betrayal   Lying  
  • One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence.

  • Too much rigidity on the part of teachers should be followed by a brisk spirit of insubordination on the part of the taught.

    Agnes Repplier (1891). “Points of View”, Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1893.
  • Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

    "Reading Lolita in Tehran". Book by Azar Nafisi, 2003.
  • Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

    Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.47, Random House
  • When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the result is insubordination. When the officers are too strong and the common soldiers too weak, the result is collapse.

    Art   Strong   War  
    Sun Tzu (2012). “The Art of War”, p.55, Courier Corporation
  • Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.

    Fire   Light   Soul  
    Lolita pt. 1, ch. 1 (1955)
  • Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.

    Strong   War   Mind  
  • Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!

    Reality   Play   World  
    Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Look at the Harlequins!”, Penguin UK
  • The way in which modern German poetry follows theories reminds me of pupils who, scolded by their teacher for their insubordination, justify themselves by saying that they invented new rules of propriety according to which they are quite well- behaved.

    Teacher   Poetry   Way  
  • Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible. These are: (1) Flight; (2) insubordination; (3) collapse; (4) ruin; (5) disorganisation; (6) rout.

    Art   War   Army  
    Sun Tzu (2012). “Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text”, p.137, Tuttle Publishing
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