Quotes About Revolt

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

As in Joyce's life and art, so in Shaw's: the revolt of the son is never the cliché-rebellion against a tyrannical parent, but the more complex revolt against the refusal or inability of an ineffectual father to provide any lead at all.

The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.

Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.

in order that nothing may pass into a law but what is satisfactorily just, not less than three fifths of the Congress to be called a majority. He that will promote discord, under a government so equally formed as this, would have joined Lucifer in his revolt.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, ever started a revolution playing by the rules." The

Therefore the fiesta is not only an excess, a ritual squandering of the goods painfully accumulated during the rest of the year; it is also a revolt, a sudden immersion in the formless, in pure being. By means of the fiesta society frees itself from the norms it has established. It ridicules its gods, its principles, and its laws: it denies its own self.

patriots who rose up in revolt against their colonizers and ran headfirst, flags aloft, toward the invaders' relentless machine guns.

I think Russia agreed to it because they're facing a revolt of the Islamic States.

Till gradually he became desperate, lost his understanding, was plunged in a revolt that knew no bounds. Inarticulate, he moved with her at the Marsh in violent, gloomy, wordless passion, almost in hatred of her.

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

[On the fall of the Bastille:] How much the greatest event it is that ever happened in the world! and how much the best!

But an important point is that, once again as with "scientific" proofs of atheism, it is not the cast-iron intellectual reasoning which convinces, but the relief of revolt.

We executed many people by firing squad without knowing if they were fully guilty. At times, the Revolution cannot stop to conduct much investigation; it has the obligation to triumph.

When the Negro was completely an underdog, he needed white spokesmen. Liberals played their parts in this period exceedingly well. In assault after assault, they led the intellectual revolt against racism, and took the initiative in founding the civil rights organizations. But now that the Negro has rejected his role as the underdog, he has become more assertive in his search for identity and group solidarity; he wants to speak for himself.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts. There come great eruptions and revolts, great dark ravages, and above all, a joylessness. A great, bleak joylessness. Everything that is natural brings joy.

Osiemnastego wieczorem zebrali?my si? u Anielewicza, ca?a pi?tka, sztab. Ja chyba by?em najstarszy, mia?em dwadzie?cia dwa lata, Anielewicz by? m?odszy o rok, razem, w pi?ciu, mieli?my sto dziesi?? lat.

It looked like his ponytail had revolted against him," said Bramble.

WHAT SERVETUS HAD NOT taken into account was that it does not take very long for revolutions to turn reactionary.

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It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

Without the Naval Uprising of 1946, the story of India's freedom will never be complete.