Quotes About Mutiny

It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

Laurence could make no real quarrel with the aims, which were natural and just; but England was at war, after all, and he was conscious, as Temeraire was not, of the impudence in demanding concessions from their own Government under such circumstances: very like mutiny. Yet

This is a secretive age. Our secrets are our weapons. Think of South Africa, those clandestine meetings. Think of the covertness of families. Think of love. How else can we express mutiny but by the burial of our unspoken thoughts?

Bligh made an announcement. "I now thought it for the Good of the Service to give Mr. Fletcher Christian an Acting Order as Lieut. I therefore Ordered it to be read to all hands.

For example, disciplined courageous nonviolent resistance in face of the dictators' brutalities may induce unease, disaffection, unreliability, and in extreme situations even mutiny among the dictators' own soldiers and population.

the captain is supposed to go down with the ship . unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat

Moral cowardice like Starbuck's turns us into hostages. Mutiny is the only salvation for the Pequod's crew. And mutiny is our only salvation.

We must declare this Snow a traitor and a rebel," agreed Ser Harys Swyft. "The black brothers must remove him." Grand Maester Pycelle nodded ponderously. "I propose that we inform Castle Black that no more men will be sent to them until such time as Snow is gone.

A boat is sort of a litmus test for relationships, the close quarters and solitude compelling people into either a warm bond or into mutiny and murder. As

My lord, I will tell you what the case was. I was coming up within a league of the Dutchman, and some of my men were making a mutiny about taking her, and my gunner told the people he could put the captain in a way to take the ship, and be safe.

Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther for you, on the sixpence a day and supply-demand principle; they will not; nor ought they, nor can they. Ye shall reduce them to order, begin reducing them. to order, to just subordination; noble loyalty in return for noble guidance. Their souls are driven nigh mad; let yours be sane and ever saner.

Who knew what brand of mutiny his captives might cook up if they shared a common tongue.

satisfied that Trinidad's men would take his side when the mutiny inevitably erupted, awaited the inevitable assault

Mesquita offered little resistance as the party of mutineers clapped him into irons and led him to the cabin of Gerónimo Guerra

crew, without anyone to give them orders and fearing for their lives, gave up their arms to the mutineers.

The first phase of the mutiny had gone off as planned.

The mutineers in control of San Antonio swiftly converted her into a battleship.

set the stage for endless challenges to Magellan's authority, in other words, for mutiny.

The Magellan of February teetered on the brink of being murdered by the men he commanded.

His first instinct was to have both men executed; this was, after all, Cartagena's third attempt at mutiny

Stripped of his command, and having learned nothing from the experience of his failed mutiny, Cartagena grew intensely resentful of his inexperienced replacement. From that moment, he burned with desire for revenge against Magellan, no matter what the cost to the expedition, and as Fonseca's son, Cartagena had power to make great trouble. Of all the perils that Magellan faced on the journey's first leg, the greatest was Cartagena's treachery.

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

A cartoon in the New Yorker captured the absurdity with a scene of airline passengers in a populist mutiny of their own: "These smug pilots have lost touch with regular passengers like us," bellows one of them. "Who thinks I should fly the plane?

They say that nothing can stand against such a man, for the one gun – that marked Mutiny – deals instant death, but the other – the one marked Matelotage – deals instant love, like the very darts of Eros. And who, I ask ye, who can stand up to love?