Quotes About Insurrection

Tout bon livre est un attentat. [in Essai sur moi-même]

You need to prepare sneak attacks on society

Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

Revolution is aimed at new arrangements; insurrection leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and set no glittering hope on "institutions

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is … the most indispensable of duties. —MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

The remarkable thing about the Bolshevik insurrection is that hardly any of the Bolshevik leaders had wanted it to happen until a few hours before it began.

The Provisional Government had lost effective military control of the capital a full two days before the armed uprising began. This was the essential fact of the whole insurrection: without it one cannot explain the ease of the Bolshevik victory.

And a man named Barabbas was imprisoned with the rebels who had committed murder during the insurrection.

(Barabbas had been imprisoned for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)

As they had requested, he released the one imprisoned for insurrection and murder, and handed Jesus over to their will.

“Not this man,” they shouted, “but Barabbas!” (Now Barabbas was an insurrectionist.)