Quotes About Uprising

If there were another word more all-embracing than revolution we would use it.

He asked, 'How can you make a revolution without firing-squads?

Exasperated, Antonov-Ovseenko called the Petrograd Fire Brigade. 'We tried flooding the cellars with water - but the firemen ... got drunk instead.' The Commissars started smashing the bottles in Palace Square, but 'the crowd drank from the gutters. The drunken ecstasy infected the entire city.

around the streets, some of the troops started firing haphazardly at burzoi shoppers on Nevsky Prospect. Gunfights broke out. Out at the Kronstadt naval base, Bolshevik sailors rose up, murdered 120 officers, including their admiral, and then demanded that Lenin, Zinoviev and Kamenev give them their orders to take the capital.

Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an inner uprising that leads to rebellion, however short- lived. It may be only momentary but it takes place. That space within oneself where resistance is possible remains.

Theses on the Philosophy of History," Benjamin mentions that when workers in Paris rose up against the monarchy of Charles X in July 1830, they "simultaneously and independently" began shooting at public clocks around the city.

In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture. We overthrow the programming of advertising, movies, video games, magazines, TV, and MTV by which we have been hypnotized from the cradle. We unplug ourselves from the grid by recognizing that we will never cure our restlessness by contributing our disposable income to the bottom line of Bullshit, Inc., but only by doing our work.

All the way back to Dartmouth, I was part of the insurgency.

Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection.

Two's company and three's a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70 or 700 or 7000 very quickly if the sense of being wronged is felt broadly and truly enough.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

The time for revolt is now, and the time for revolt is always!

The revolution has to be self-liberation.

Of itself, class struggle does not bring inevitable proletarian victory or even a proletarian uprising. Oppressive social conditions may cry out for revolution, but that does not mean revolution is forthcoming.

... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

Theatre is like a boat, it is only so big, but uprising is the reversal of the system, and revolution is the turning of the tides.

There is a misery of the body and a misery of the mind, and if the stars, whenever we looked at them, poured nectar into our mouths, and the grass became bread, we would still be sad. We live in a system that manufactures sorrow, spilling it out of its mill, the waters of sorrow, ocean, storm, and we drown down, dead, too soon... uprising is the reversal of the system, and revolution is the turning of tides.

If the uprising in Baltimore was evidence of disillusionment with mainstream politics on the left, then Dylann Roof's vicious murder of nine Black parishioners was proof of the same phenomenon on the right.

Sólo la verdad es revolucionaria

There will always be new opposites, class struggles and uprisings. History has no ending.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

Citizens, did you want a revolution without revolution?

Notwithstanding such moments of comprehension as Kamenev displayed, the scope of the rural catastrophe was still clouded in Moscow by class-war idées fixes as the regime reflexively labeled the peasants' legitimate grievances "an uprising of kulaks, bandits, and deserters.