How we cite our quotes: (Record.Paragraph)
Quote #4
"This irrational root grew into me as something strange, foreign, terrible; it tortured me; it could not be thought out. It could not be defeated because it was beyond reason." (8.1)
Rebellion is irrational, like the square root of -1. It is also undeniable. This foundation gives the rebels power, because the basis of their rebellion is something that simply can't be erased or ignored.
Quote #5
In my final moment I will piously and gratefully kiss the punishing hand of the Benefactor. I have the right to receive punishment according to my relationship to the One State—and I will not cede this right. None of us ciphers should ever dare to refuse this, our single, only—and, as such, valuable—right. (20.3)
It may sound weird, but this is actually a form of rebellion. He's asserting his right over the State, even if it's only a right to help shape the method of his doom.
Quote #6
For a second I saw her as an outsider, like everyone else: she was already not a cipher—she was only a person; she existed only as the metaphysical substance of insult, inflicted toward the One State. (22.6)
Notice how the book exemplifies acts like rebellion into a character's personality. I-330 herself is a walking act of rebellion, existing in part of a system that is supposed to stamp out anything that might result in a person like her.