Revolt Quotes

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

Strong leaders are harassed, imprisoned or assassinated, which are great deterrents if you want to silence a firebrand and suppress a revolt.

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.

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

Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.

... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.

The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

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

All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy.

My discord must be different from yours; my revolt must not be the same thing as yours. It will not be a revolt if it is moulding itself around your revolt.

Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.

O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

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

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

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.

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.

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

The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets.

Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a revolt.

The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.

Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.

If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.

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

[It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven.

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

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

I don't think anything will change until Americans revolt and get it into their heads that they need to be informed voters instead of just listening to the paid political ads.