Quotes About Revolt

It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.

It was an ugly flower, pink with yellow-tipped stamens sticking out of the center. It deserved to die. Zoe pulled the hammer back in a slow motion and snapped it forward. There was a delicious sound of cracking plaster as the flower dissolved into rubble. White dust rose all around here. "I hate that wallpaper," she said

The heavy scent of perfume and the red slashes of lipstick, so strong in the fifties, revolted me. For a time I resented her. She was the messenger and also the message

You came back here that day with a word written on your forehead that I could read: 'Succeed! Succeed at any price.' " To which Vautrin responds: "Bravo! That's the kind of fellow I like." (SC 111/P 3:139) To revolt is to take destiny into your own hands by a decisive act.

Sentimentality will always be man's first revolt against development.

that read: “It is reported among the nations—and Geshem agrees—that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and this is why you are building the wall. According to these reports, you are to become their king,

rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.