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Quotes About Revolt

The mob is the mother of tyrants.
~ Laertius Diogenes
Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Only—I was not only sent to kill the Leucrotta. There is a maiden in a tower—" At this the Witch spat, again rolling her marvelous eyes. "Those revolting creatures are always getting themselves locked up. If only they would stay that way.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
He who needs something to rebel against is less of a social anarchist than he who seeks to create something against which there is no need to rebel. There may be no end to the ugly, sordid, and horrifying things against which an honest man cannot help but revolt, but there are also things that are beautiful, joyful, and pure. If it were wrong to attend to the latter while the former still thrive, then a hopeless perpetual struggle would become the only meaning of life.
~ Giovanni Baldelli
Furthermore, the revolutionary parties in all countries gave public utterance to the socialist principle of international peace that must be preserved at all hazards, even to the extent of revolt and revolution at home. The
~ Jack London
Sizin diÅŸleriniz sökülmüÅŸtür baylar, t?rnaklar?n?z köreltilmiÅŸtir! DiÅŸsiz ve t?rnaks?z ayaklanaca??n?z gün bir koyun sürüsü kadar zarars?z ve yumuÅŸak bir durumda olacaks?n?z!
~ Jack London
It means that a man is continually revolting against an effect without, while all the time he is nourishing and preserving its cause in his heart.
~ James Allen
One of the causes of the Arab Spring was high unemployment.
~ Alain Dehaze
Sleep is for squares.
~ Henry Rollins
Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
~ Camille Paglia
A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.
~ Raymond Carver
He turns revolt into a style, prolongsThe impulse to a habit of the time.
~ Thom Gunn
A whiff of grapeshot.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Revolt is designed to be a home for the next generation of musical artists, and we are investing in the artists and fans of the future. Revolt is for artists, by artists. This won't just be the P. Diddy network.
~ Sean Combs
that perennial type of middle-class girl whose revolt against parental authority consists of a search for more domineering masters than her parents had ever been.
~ Nick Cohen
The deluded vision of personality that our Western civilization fosters and glorifies, increases the inward division; Lawrence recognized it as the enemy. The war against it is therefore inevitably a revolt against Western civilization.
~ Colin Wilson
The first phase of the mutiny had gone off as planned.
~ Laurence Bergreen
the people, on account of this thing over and above all, might rebel and do harm.
~ Laurence Bergreen
As explained by Carlos Marighella, the Brazilian guerrilla leader whose writings influenced political terrorists in the 1960s and 1970s, if a government can be provoked into a purely military response to terrorism, its overreaction will alienate the masses, causing them to "revolt against the army and the police and blame them for this state of things.
~ Chalmers Johnson
When this interchange of Christian name was effected, Madame Defarge, picking her teeth with her toothpick, coughed another grain of cough, and raised her eyebrows by the breadth of another line.
~ Charles Dickens
You don't know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don't know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!
~ Gustav Landauer
Sans les traditions, pas de civilisation; sans la destruction de ces traditions, pas de progrès.....Ce n'est pas dans les temples qu'habitent les idoles les plus redoutables, ni dans les palais les tyrans les plus despotiques; ceux_ci peuvent être brisés en un instant; mais les maîtres invisibles qui règnent dans nos âmes échappent à tout effort de révolte, et ne cèdent qu'à la lente usure des siècles
~ Gustave Le Bon
The acquisition of knowledge for which no use can be found is a sure method of driving a man to revolt.
~ Gustave Le Bon
Never work.
~ Guy Debord