Quotes About Revolt

The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

Our forefathers would think it's time for a revolution. This is why they revolted in the first place... They revolted against much more mild oppression.

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

We're here to fuck shit up

Indeed, not just the problems but the loud cry "Reform!" had been heard here and there for centuries before Luther.

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hand, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.

We looked at the village. I saw nothing that did not turn my stomach.

Control is out of the question.

Our Kingdom call is to revolt against the Powers by dismantling the hierarchy of privilege, rejecting all racial stereotypes and judgments, forging meaningful relationships across ethnic lines, and submitting ourselves to one another as we listen, learn, and follow one another.

Our call is to trust that the foolishness of self-sacrificial love will overcome evil in the end. Our call is to manifest the beauty of a Savior who loves indiscriminately while revolting against all hatred and violence. This is the humble mustard seed revolution that will in the end transform the world.

There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It's painting as insurgency.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was considered the worthiest thing you could try to do.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.

Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.

There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

Villagers love to remember the glorious old days, when they used to skewer one another with sticks, fire muskets into one another's faces, and cut off their neighbors' heads in the name of king or country or whatever they were into back then.