Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Louis XIV was very frank and sincere when he said: I am the State. The modern statist is modest. He says: I… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann.… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
The most far-reaching social development of modern times is the revolt of woman against sex servitude. The most important force in the… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating… — Gelett Burgess Copy Share Image
The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice. — John Henry Cox Copy Share Image
A big part of pain is the subjective reaction of trying to revolt against pain. If it's there, it's better to deal… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of… — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“What is deemed as “his-story” is often determined by those who survived to write it. In other words, history is written by… — Thomas Jerome Baker Copy Share Image
There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army… — Qurratulain Hyder Copy Share Image
“We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests, from our flesh by mass… — The Invisible Committee Copy Share Image
“They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. They want us to barricade our… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I was never in favor of violence. I am always in favor of expressing anger, though. I am always in favor of… — Margarethe von Trotta Copy Share Image
War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
New York Stat agreed to pay $12 million to settle a lawsuit filed three decades ago by inmates swept up in the… — Colin Quinn Copy Share Image
“Just then, Larry recalled a conversation he had with a friend in Ireland, about the situation in Nepal between the King and… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
The dominance of [an ideology] is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the… — Nicos Poulantzas Copy Share Image
The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image