With [Columbus'] sailors ready to revolt, land--as if cued…

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

— Simone Weil

I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost…

— Ellen Glasgow

“Ja sam sve što kažete da jesam, i još gore od toga. I da nisam, ipak jesam. Šta imam od toga?! (Bol i revolt)”

— Marko Šelić

The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman Empire is…

— Ann Leckie

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later…

— Elliott Abrams

You couldnt get a job playing in a club unless you played so much Top 40 and so many Beatles songs. I just went…

— Gregg Allman

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

— Albert Camus

“Often known science will revolt against unknown science”

— Tirumala

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

— Henry Steele Commager

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Oscar Wilde

“There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.”

— André Gide

But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to…

— Thomas Paine

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to…

— Thomas Sankara

The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it…

— Niccolo Machiavelli