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Quotes About Insurrection

sedition enters the fortress and our troops rise in insurrection.
~ Virginia Woolf
The first phase of the mutiny had gone off as planned.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.
~ Mary Astell
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
~ Ian Mcewan
We're a part of the insurrection, trying to turn Christianity upside down. We're an experimental church: God's research and development arm.
~ Erwin McManus
What I'm really trying to say is that I believed an armed insurrection could work. After I was shot and went to prison, that ended that illusion. I had time to think.
~ Huey Newton
Any apparent insurrection in the human body or mind against Emperor Soul, manifesting as disease or irrationality, is due to no disloyalty among the humble subjects, but stems from past or present misuse by man of his individuality or free will—given to him simultaneously with a soul, and revocable never. Identifying
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Disruptive movement must come from within.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
~ Leon Trotsky
I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
~ William Shakespeare
Não tenho dormido. Entre a ação de um ato terrível e o primeiro gesto, todo esse intervalo é como um fantasma ou um sonho odioso: O Génio e os instrumentos mortais estão nessa altura reunidos; e a condição do homem, equiparável a um pequeno reino, sofre então a natureza de uma insurreição.
~ William Shakespeare
Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasm or a hideous dream. The genius and the moral instruments Are then in council, and the state of a man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
~ William Shakespeare
To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.
~ Don Tapscott
If true, this meant Billing was guilty, if not of treason, then certainly insurrection. In a world worried by revolution and the rise of the radical right, he was a dangerous man.
~ Philip Hoare
The abandonment of the Minneapolis police station marked the beginning of the mature phase of an insurrection. As the anarchists solidify their power, it will be remembered as the Fort Sumter of the Revolution. The liberals who bowed them into power will then, sooner or later, be put against the wall. History records nothing to the contrary.
~ David Mamet
I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp
~ Vince Flynn
On learning that the instigators of the uprising had been shot, she was incensed both by the fact that they had been shot at all and the fact that not enough of them had been shot.
~ Vladimir Voinovich
Anarchism rejects authority in any form: to the principle of representation, it opposes the direct and independent action of individuals and masses: to !egalitarian and parliamentarian action, it opposes rebellion, insurrection, the general strike, the social revolution.
~ Unknown
The purest and noblest exaltation of our ideal in the hearts of the people is a constant and intrepid education; a cautious but vigorous preparation for the armed insurrection.
~ Unknown
There's a long long trail awinding . . . Over there! Over there! In the subway their eyes pop as they spell out APOCALYPSE, typhus, cholera, shrapnel, insurrection, death in fire, death in water, death in hunger, death in mud.
~ John Dos Passos
Between October 19 and 23, the rebel lords did the unthinkable.
~ John Guy
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.
~ Mao Tse-Tung
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.
~ Mao Zedong