Quotes About Rebellion

Tis well that such seditious songs are sung Only by priests, and in the Latin tongue!

There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.

To come up against someone who appeared not to give a damn about exerting petty power almost restored his faith in the public.

Adultery is a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

Treba podi?i mase protiv njih i sve ih uništiti kao klasu te prokletnike...Da bi ih ubili, trebalo je izjavitwi, Kulaci, to nisu ljudska bi?a, kao što su i Nijemci govorili, Jevreji, to nisu lj bi?a.

The law fights against life, and life fights against the law.

Like everything else that took place in the Soviet Union, this upsurge of spontaneous fury had been conceived and planned well in advance.

Gentlemen of the human race, I say to hell with the lot of you.

Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing.

Be serious," said Enjolras. "I am wild," replied Grantaire.

Gentlemen, my father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. I understand only love and liberty.

Hay siempre en el pensamiento cierta cantidad de rebelión interior, y le irritaba sentirla dentro de sí.

If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little revolt is desirable from the point of view of power. System: revolt strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow.

With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force the captain to show himself.

In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.

And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old régime became the new régime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!

At five in the morning, some policemen, unannounced, entered the house of a man named Pardon, later a member of the section of the Barricade-Merry, and still later killed in the insurrection of April 1834, found him standing not far from his bed, with cartridges in his hands, caught in the act.

Le plus excellent symbole du peuple, c'est le pavé. On marche dessus jusqu'à ce qu'il vous tombe sur la tête.

In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion;

As long as he has for refrain nothing but la Carmagnole, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the Marseillaise, and he will free the world.

With just the 'Carmagnole' to sing he will only overthrow Louis XVI; but give him the 'Marseillaise' and he will liberate the world.

Gavroche added: I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack.

Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!

pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a bad sign; and when this matter was reported to Marshal Soult, Napoleon's old lieutenant grew thoughtful, as he recalled Suchet's saying at Saragossa: "We are lost when the old women empty their pots de chambre on our heads." These