Quotes About Uprising

Society is a long series of uprising ridges which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose; wherever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Lilliputian mole-hill.

Between October 19 and 23, the rebel lords did the unthinkable.

the Earl of Atholl's men and those of the Laird of Tullibardine cried out, "Burn the whore!

Within a year, the cardinal's estimates were shown to be woefully inadequate, and Parois was up in arms.

In little over a month, a handful of poorly armed and largely untrained men had brought one of the greatest royal houses of Europe to its knees.

REBEL, n. A proponent of a new misrule who has failed to establish it.

It does, however, form part of a wider and more profound movement of mass rebellion against the established order.

A revolution is not the same as inviting people to dinner, or writing an essay, or painting a picture…. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

when they rebelled a decade later, the king had 4,500 of them beheaded on the banks of the River Weser.

Weren't we having a mutiny?

You need to prepare sneak attacks on society

The powerful don't make revolutions

Qué hermosa es la revolución, aun en su misma barbarie!

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

Four specific missions were assigned: to spy on the nguy and American forces in the city; to recruit civilians to join the uprising and provide support; to train them with weapons and tactics; and to build a committed core who, when the battle began, would carry the wounded to medical stations in the rear and help feed the army. Weapons, ammo, food, and medical provisions all would be smuggled, stockpiled, and made ready.

The dazzling white Sacré-Coeur, which went up in the Commune's aftermath, was erected in expiation for the sins of France, but its conservative Catholic promoters had little sympathy with the Communards. Not coincidentally, the basilica completely hides the ground where the cannons were parked and the uprising first broke out.

If we once manufactured the consent of the population for everything from the Vietnam War to the bombing of Kosovo to the occupation of Iraq, we're now manufacturing discontent . It's the only way to prevent a popular uprising.

So long as the public is busy hating each other and not aiming its ire at the more complex financial and political processes going on off-camera, there's very little danger of anything like a popular uprising.

Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution!

Revolution is an awakening, so is the spring! Spring is an awakening, so is the revolution!

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

[Referring to the Arab Spring:] The people were ruled for decades in fear of regimes. This year the fear was overtaken by hope and dreams of change.

Anarchy took its first breath.