Quotes About Insurrections

When slave owners claimed they could not join the minutemen because they had to stay home to prevent insurrections, small farmers objected that service in the military was "calculated to exempt the gentlemen and throw the whole burthern on the poor" and that "the Rich wanted the Poor to fight for them, to defend there property, whilst they refused to fight for themselves."32

seditions and insurrections are, unhappily, maladies as inseparable from the body politic as tumors and eruptions from the natural body;

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

At present I am chiefly concerned to drive home the fact that it is the great disparity between the rapid progress of the natural and technological sciences on the one hand and the slow progress of the metaphysical, so-called social "sciences" on the other hand, that sooner or later so disturbs the equilibrium of human affairs as to result periodically in those social cataclysms which we call insurrections, revolutions and wars.

The Republic is to parties what the tree is to parasites; the parties are the vermin of the nations, and it is important not to forget that it is with the various pretensions of these political religionaires that we must march by jerks of revolutions in insurrections, and insurrections in state of siege, to lead periodically to the burial of the dead, and to the payment of revolutionary bills which are the bonuses granted by the imbecility of all to the audacity of a few.

Quello che accadde in Francia nei successivi dieci anni di convulsioni rivoluzionarie persuase i patrioti americani che la Rivoluzione francese, con le continue insurrezioni di folle, le violenze, i massacri, il Terrore, le guerre continentali, e infine l'impero napoleonico, era l'antitesi della loro rivoluzione.

10 percent of the slaves on such voyages were killed in the insurrections (which totals one hundred thousand deaths, 1500–1867)

What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people.

The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the premeditation of coups d'etat.

that Old Man kept writing letters and squawking and hollering 'bout slavery, sounding off like the devil to every newspaper in America that would listen, and they was listening, for them insurrections scared the devil out the white man. It set the table for the war that was to come, is what it did, for nothing scared the South more than the idea of niggers running 'round with guns and wanting to be free.

There is some difference between them and sheep: Sheep will never make any insurrections.

I had learned by then that Maribel liked to think of herself as a rebel. And yet she managed only small insurrections.