Quotes About Revolt

The tyranny of the quantifiable is partly the failure of language and discourse to describe more complex, subtle, and fluid phenomena, as well as the failure of those who shape opinions and make decisions to understand and value these slipperier things. It is difficult, sometimes even impossible, to value what cannot be named or described, and so the task of naming and describing is an essential one in any revolt against the status quo of capitalism and consumerism.

the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality.

It is difficult, sometimes even impossible, to value what cannot be named or described, and so the task of naming and describing is an essential one in any revolt against the status quo of capitalism and consumerism.

Mark's audience was in Rome, where he himself resided. His account of the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth was written mere months after the Jewish Revolt had been crushed

Why go through that stuff all over again? Don't you know the rule: once bitten, twice bitten? But now, I found myself in revolt against my own … what? Conventionality, lack of imagination

There is a superior unity of all those who despite all, fight in different parts of the world the same battle, lead the same revolt, and are the bearers of the same intangible Tradition. These forces appear to be scattered and isolated in the world, and yet are inexorably connected by a common essence that is meant to preserve the absolute ideal of the Imperium and to work for its return.

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

Oh, that feels good! I don't know who invented ties and then insisted a man was only properly dressed when he wore one, but if I ever meet him, I'll strangle him with his own invention

Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied.

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.

Resistance to oppression is second nature.

Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ.

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.

From this point of view, Zafar could certainly be tried as a defeated enemy king; but he had never been a subject, and so could not possibly be called a rebel guilty of treason. Instead, from a legal point of view, a good case could be made that it was the East India Company which was the real rebel, guilty of revolt against a feudal superior to whom it had sworn allegiance for nearly a century.

The new Nawab first quickly dispersed the mutinous sepoys of Murshidabad by paying them from his own treasury.

The idea of the "free man," as we understand it, is the product of a revolt against mediaeval and feudal ideas; and

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

Reginald Wingate… wrote that "Moslems in general have hitherto regarded the Hejaz revolt, and our share in it, with suspicion or dislike"; an that it was important to make Hussein look as though he had not been a failure in order to keep Britain from looking bad.

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!