Quotes About Rebellion

The central government was a despotism tempered by military rebellion and assassination and replacement of one scurvy lot of ruling dynasts by another. But the high politics of the city of Rome little affected the lives of the masses or even of the provincial nobility. It was the wonderful army that provided the continuity and peace that this vast population enjoyed.

I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.

Resisting madness is the maddest way of being mad.

Slaves were never allowed to talk to white people other than their masters or someone their masters knew, as they were afraid the white man might have the slave run away. The masters aimed to keep their slaves in ignorance and the ignorant slaves were all in favor of the Rebel army. Only the more intelligent were in favor of the Union army.

You can't make a revolutionary omelet without breaking heads.

I am a profoundly anti-juridical man. . . . I have neither any sense of law or need for law.

Adam and Eve. What through a revolution was effected, must through a revolution be overthrown.

one group's resistance fighter is another group's rogue.

Bizlere uygun görülen kadere her yerde kar?? ç?kmal?y?z.

Beni babama çok benzetirlerdi. Ona benzedi?im için adam olamad?m, serseri oldum art?k eve çamurlu ayakkab?lar?mla girece?im,

Yakmal? bu mektuplar?, yakmal?! Ölü diller uzman?n? ve bu konuda görü?tü?üm herkesi öldürmeli! Hayalimde daha önce çok insan öldürmü? oldu?um için bu son ölümler beni fazla sarsmad?. Nedense, bu arada gizli mezhebin üyelerim de öldürmeyi dü?ünmüyordum. Bu dü?üncelerimi ö?renmelerinden bile korkuyordum.

I don't want to die, I want to live and annoy everyone, hence I was doomed to an absolute loneliness.

I vowed to never, ever talk or reason like an adult.

Apparently I wasn't in the mood to listen to myself.

Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels. The company-city subgenre always seemed to star a hero who outsmarted, overthrew, or escaped "the company." I've never seen one where the hero fought like hell to get taken in and underpaid by the company. In real life, that's the way it will be. That's the way it always is.

You do everything they tell you," she wept, "and they still treat you like a old dog. Go here, open your legs; go there, bust your back. What they care! I ain't s'pose to have no feelin's!

Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels. The company-city subgenre always seemed to star a hero who outsmarted, overthrew, or escaped "the company." I've never seen one where the hero fought like hell to get taken in and underpaid by the company. In real life, that's the way it will be. That's the way it is.

Why can't I do what others have done - ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It's hard enough just to do that in this world.

Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels. The company-city genre always seemed to star a hero who outsmarted, overthrew, or escaped "the company." I've never seen one where the hero fought like hell to get taken in and underpaid by the company. In real life, that's the way it will be. That's the way it is.

In the world of mules There are no rules.

Z jakich? wzgl?dów ludzie nie potrafi? wyobra?a? sobie ko?ców, nie tylko ko?ców rzeczy wielkich, ale nawet najmniejszych. Mo?e samo wyobra?anie sobie czegokolwiek wyczerpuje jako? rzeczywisto??; mo?e ona nie chce by? wyobra?ana w g?owach ludzi, mo?e chce by? wolna, jak zbuntowany nastolatek, i to w?a?nie dlatego zawsze jest inaczej, ni? mo?na to by?o sobie wyobrazi?.

But how could he have, when women themselves had suddenly gone insane, were rejecting the direction, the protection, that their menfolk offered them, were recklessly plunging off on their own into unknown and unspeakable depths?

He [Oliver Cromwell] in a furious manner, bid the Speaker leave his chair; told the house That they had sat long enough, unless they had done more good; and that it was not fit they should sit as a parliament any longer, and desired them to go away.

You may all go to pot.