Quotes About Uprising

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.

To the extent that Bernie Sanders was about building a movement of people where challenging things that up until then were unchallengeable, then absolutely we want to be seen in that mould.

They would take advantage of an uprising to seize the reins themselves; they would turn upon their allies as they had done with Kerensky in Russia.

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

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

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future.

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

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.

All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil. The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the government. No singularity was lacking in this crisis, still subterranean, but already perceptible. The middle class talked quietly with workingmen about the preparations. They would say, How is the uprising coming along? in the same tone in which they would have said, How's your wife?

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

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.

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

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed

we should listen to Leon Trotsky. "Revolution is impossible until it is inevitable," he told us.

It was not a column, but a mob, an awful river that filled the street, the people of the abyss, mad with drink and wrong, up at last and roaring for the blood of their masters. I had seen the people of the abyss before, gone through its ghettos, and thought I knew it; but I found that I was now looking on it for the first time. Dumb apathy had vanished. It was now dynamic—a fascinating spectacle of dread.

This is the revolution, my masters. Stop it if you can.

The Arab Spring, with all of its failings and failures, exposed the lie that if we are to live, then we must live as slaves. It was an attempt to undermine not only the orthodoxy of dictatorship but also an international political orthodoxy where every activity must be approved by the profit logic of the 'ledger.'

One of the causes of the Arab Spring was high unemployment.

In the process of the Arab Spring, we have unfortunately seen a development in Syria where the regime has been oppressing its people.

The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.

The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power.

None of us is certain about the outcome of the Arab Spring.