Revolt Quotes

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If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

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

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .

Revolt is the right of the people

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?

Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don’t adjust! Revolt against the reality!

The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

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

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.

That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity.

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.

Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Revolt is my new - cable music network. It's distributed through Time Warner and Comcast. And to put it simply, it is the ESPN of music.

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.

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

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

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.

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.

A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.

Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission.

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

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.

Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

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

Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.