Quotes About Uprising

A revolutionary uprising that spreads over a number of days can develop victoriously only in case it ascends step by step, and scores one success after another. A pause in its growth is dangerous; a prolonged marking of time, fatal. But even successes by themselves are not enough; the masses must know about them in time, and have time to understand their value. It is possible to let slip a victory at the very moment when it is within arm's reach. This has happened in history.

The powers who controlled the United States didn't want the people to know their history. If the people knew their history, they would realize they must rise up.

Nothing short of a revolutionary uprising can account for the inter-regnum of some two centuries that separated the 'Old Kingdom' from the 'Middle Kingdom.' And though the archaic power complex was finally restored, it was modified by various important concessions, including the extension of immortality (once a Pharaonic or upper-class privilege) to the population at large.

There is a bitter lament from Egypt's first great popular uprising that reveals the indignation of the upper classes, because the lower orders had broken into their precincts, and not merely turned their wives into prostitutes, but, what seemed equally bad, captured knowledge that had been withheld from them. "The writings of the august enclosure [the temple] are read....The place of secrets...is [now] laid bare....Magic is exposed." (Admonitions of Ipu-wer: 2300-2050 B.C.?)

the Despot is Master only as long as he is the strongest, and as soon as he can be driven out he cannot protest against violence. The uprising that ends by strangling or dethroning a Sultan is as Lawful an act as those by which he disposed, the day before, of the lives and goods of his Subjects.

It is the good children, Madame, who make the most terrible revolutionaries. They say nothing, they do not hide under the table, they eat only one sweet at a time, but later on, they make Society pay dearly for it!

The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

An oppressed people will always rise.

This protest, the rebellion, was a tonic.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

92, '93, '94. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death.

When religion and royalty are destroyed the people will attack the nobles; after the nobles, the rich.

in Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising. The Second American Revolution.

It was convenient to call them snipers, because if they weren't snipers, then what were they? The governor didn't say it; the newspapers didn't say it; the history books still do not say it, but I, who watched the entire thing on my bike, saw it clearly: in Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was nothing less than a guerrilla uprising. The Second American Revolution.

To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

No victorious revolution without an idea. Certainly! But just as certainly: It is not the idea which makes a revolution, but privation which causes it to break out. And once under way, it deviates from the idea.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

The English rose against William every year between 1067 and 1070.

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