INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
A revolution is not a dinner party [...] A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another. — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Even on songs we've got that are about a girl, there's always something there that's a call to insurrection. — Ian Brown Copy Share Image
I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador… — Bianca Jagger Copy Share Image
The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start. — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to wait until all conditions for making revolution exist; the insurrection can create them. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
“Few know it, but the Devil rewards insurrection. After all, rebellion is the original sin, and he did conceive it.” — Tanya Thompson Copy Share Image
I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be… — Thomas L. Smith Copy Share Image
“In school we chanted, along with our teacher, I am the Captain of my fate, I am the Master of my soul,… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Every movement of his body is an unconscious protest. Every desire, every dream, no matter how intimate or personal, is a plot… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I never expected the movement against globalization and corporate rule to mushroom as quickly as it has, either. And right now the… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Sin is the insurrection and rebellion of the heart against God; it turns from Him, and turns against Him; it takes up… — Richard Alleine Copy Share Image
An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Not songs of loyalty alone are these, But songs of insurrection also, For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But,… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasm or a hideous dream.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The people are under arms tonight because they hope for justice for tomorrow, Some go about saying that it is not worthwhile…But… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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