Quotes About Revolt

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.

The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

Let us revolt against the nightmare, and work together for a kinder world.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

If the East Timorians decide to revolt, Im sure Ill have a statement.

He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

Be the slaughterhouse for sacred cows.

You have heard tales of the 'jacquerie' beginning in the villages?

Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And she knew that each day she remained alive, she remained alive . One plus one plus one. The Devil's arithmetic...

Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.

Their resistance was made to concession; their revolt was from protection; their blow was aimed at a hand holding out graces, favours, and immunities.

She had eloped in a trance, in haste, her docility a mask, a thousand hers revolting within herself and toward him. Yet coexisting with her flounder was the hope that one evening he would call her into his study and they would talk openly, talk of the things that had kept them apart and from their candor there would be born a real love, a lasting love that they had both envisaged.   The news of her pregnancy elated him.

With rebellion, awareness is born.

What is a rebel A man who says no.

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.

aquilo que nos modifica não são os fatos extraordinários que acontecem uma só vez, mas sim esse hábito, essa longa aceitação das coisas contra as quais deixamos de nos revoltar.

That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste system. They cannot expect the Brahmins to rise in revolt against the caste system. Also we cannot rely upon the non-Brahmins and ask them to fight our battle.