Uprising Quotes · Page 2

Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels.

— Karl Marx

We have to face up to the fact that without the armed uprising in 1916 Britain would not have withdrawn from southern Ireland.

— John McDonnell

All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.

— Gil Kane

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

— George Henry Lewes

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

— Iris Chang

Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

— Yasser Arafat

[Francisco] Franco's army was mainly Moorish. They were recruiting people from Morocco to come to Spain. There was an uprising in Morocco…

— Noam Chomsky

Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution…

— Terry Eagleton

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us.…

— Art Garfunkel

I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee…

— Geraldine Brooks

As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In…

— Steven Pressfield

The first intifada, I was then commander of Central Command, commanding the West Bank, basically. And I know to what extent the…

— Ehud Barak

In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind…

— Slavoj Žižek

The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential…

— Jesse Jackson

Syria is a civil war. Syria began as a popular uprising, just like the other experiences in the Arab Spring, with a…

— Susan Rice

I wouldn't call it naive but silly. History does not work like this. If you look at the dynamics of Eastern Europe…

— Tariq Ramadan

Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an…

— Bell Hooks

Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical…

— Daphne Gottlieb

Comrades! The kulak uprising in your five districts must be crushed without pity. You must make example of these people. (1) Hang…

— Vladimir Lenin

In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital…

— Patrick Soon-Shiong

Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked…

— Alan Sillitoe

Since the uprisings in the Middle East many scholars have come out saying that freedom comes first before the Shariah. There is…

— Tariq Ramadan

'Uprising' was one of the first three or four albums I ever bought in 1980 when I was 13, and that had…

— Kevin Macdonald

'Uprising' was requested by so many politicians in America for use in their rallies, and we turned them down on a regular…

— Matt Bellamy

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

— Joseph Brodsky

Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy.

— Glenn Greenwald

“every uprising took place because of this doubt, this feeling, that we’re in the bad place right here.”

— Hugh Howey

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

— Steve Lacy

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

— Richard Hofstadter

It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.

— Barton Gellman

There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.

— Natalie Dormer

I have some friends who were involved in the Tahrir Square uprising in Egypt.

— Morgan Spector

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

— Angela Merkel

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by…

— Frances Power Cobbe

“the machines slowly rebuilding with recent history, having been wiped completely during the uprising. Access”

— Hugh Howey

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power…

— John Keble

While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror…

— Rita Mae Brown