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Quotes About Uprising

En los años siguientes, los dirigentes estadounidenses y británicos negarían su responsabilidad en el multitudinario levantamiento iraquí que alentaron. En el norte de Iraq, decenas de miles de kurdos ya se habían sublevado contra sus opresores y —olvidando las traiciones de los estadounidenses— esperaban con ansia la ayuda de los aliados.
~ Robert Fisk
revolutions. Periscope
~ Douglas Reeman
Until one corporation is left standing, and the impoverished revolt.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Violent overthrow of the revolution is revolutionary, and compromise with the revolution is revolutionary.
~ Douglas Wilson
Respect the teachers? That's the nonsense of 'teachers' dignity.' You two are typical 'teachers' obedient little lambs,' do you know that?" Du Hai recited more phrases from the newspaper. The world had turned upside down. Now it was a crime for students to respect teachers. I couldn't keep calm.
~ Ji-li Jiang
America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.
~ Jim Hightower
Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
~ Yasser Arafat
The small folk of a land can only be oppressed so long before they rise up in their own defense, be it against outlanders or an unjust lord of their own.
~ Robin Hobb
Regarding the uprising as a direct threat to constitutional order, Washington asked Supreme Court Justice James Wilson to declare a state of anarchy around Pittsburgh.
~ Ron Chernow
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The only justification of rebellion is success.
~ Thomas Reed
Amongst civilized nations revolts are rarely excited, except by such persons as have nothing to lose by them;
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
~ Ambrose Bierce
She scarcely ever had a moment to herself, but she was grateful for that, too. When she was alone, the things she had seen and done the day of the uprising rushed into her mind, like filthy water into a holed boat, and dragged her down so quickly she felt she was drowning.
~ Joe Abercrombie
if enough people got angry enough, they could change things. Now anger was the answer to everything.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.
~ Joe Eszterhas
Because of the uprising by VANDU, and a conservative mayor who listened to the facts, opened his heart, and changed his mind, Vancouver now has the most progressive drug policies on the North American continent.
~ Johann Hari
This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
~ Joseph Brodsky
We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.
~ E. Lockhart
Morals lead to order; passions lead to revolution.
~ E. Michael Jones
While the angels, all pallid and wan,Uprising, unveiling, affirmThat the play is the tragedy, "Man,"And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; thou understandest my thought afar off.
~ Anonymous
With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
~ Kate Millett