What are some motives for rebellion?

Question

I'm looking for things like oppression, greed, attention...
When people are oppressed by their governments, they rebel.
When people want power, they start a rebellion and take over...

What are some other motives for rebellion? or what is the motivation behind a rebel? What could they be fighting for? and what is the cause?

Answer 1

The 1960s are a good place to start. Rebellion was conducted in different ways--peaceful protests as well as violent acts against governments. May 1968, French students started a revolution in academia, and all over the world, the youth stood up for recognition and validation and to fight the oppressive social structures that were allowing racism, sexism, and other things to flourish. Tianeman Square, the same thing--students rose up against an oppressive regime. The 1700s saw a lot of rebellions in which the people stood up to governments as well. The storming of the Bastille in France was the result of the poor rising up against the callous, indifferent, extravagently rich aristocracy. Even something like the cult of Charles Manson was a form of rebellion against social dictates, and his so-called "motivation" for killing people was that they were flaunting their wealth. Manson was afraid there'd be an uprising of Black people in the US, and he wanted to be ahead of that rebellion. It seems that rebellions are often started by those who have been cast out socially, politically or intellectually and that they want to exert power over those who oppress their lives.

Answer 2

Oppressive power is the main source for the desire to rebel.
That is one more reason why America's Founding Fathers gave the power of government to the citizen.
If you are forced into a position you can't tolerate by a tyrant with great power, you will eventually rebel.
What that intolerable condition may be could vary widely, but it is the tyrannical power forcing you to stay in that condition that foments the rebellion.

Answer 3

Except Ho Chi Minh was once given energy through those forces (USA) to overthrow the historic Vietnam executive, which Nazi Germany accrued with the downing of France. South Vietnam was once very a lot in opposition to Minh, so in a way you might have a divided nation, it was once a civil struggle, no longer a unified one like the only Washington had which was once strictly colonists vs British, although Americans did have a Civil struggle in a while down the street, Washington was once no longer alive right now.

Answer 4

Motives for being a rebel? Well, how about this one:
being in search of a cause.

Answer 5

Trends in modern society (polarizations in political and social issues as well as the gross depletion of our vital resources).

This is what personally pushes me to rebel, too much nonsensical chaos pushed on us.

Answer 6

money, religion, freedom

Answer 7

INDEPENDENCE