Revolt Quotes · Page 10

“I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself…

— Lepota L. Cosmo

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

— Bertrand Russell

It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a…

— Malcolm X

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Adolf Hitler

In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.

— Lewis Mumford

It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize…

— Bernard Lazare

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Andre Malraux

My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they…

— Thomas Jefferson

The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought,…

— Milan Kundera

The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

— Agnes Repplier

The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of…

— Jean Baudrillard

The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced…

— Franz Oppenheimer

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Jim Morrison

In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

— Harold Rosenberg

By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years…

— Martin Filler

Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary…

— John Calvin

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

— George F. Kennan

there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep…

— Mildred Cable

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched…

— Chinua Achebe

For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited…

— Jurnee Smollett

Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe…

— Andre Breton

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

— Lincoln Steffens