Revolt Quotes

Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

— Albert Camus

“Art is revolt against fate.”

— Andre Malaux

“Život je revolt smrti.”

— Ivan Baran

Addiction is a revolt of the soul.

— Yehuda Berg

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

— Andre Malraux

Art is a revolt against fate.

— Andre Malraux

Revolt is the right of the people

— John Locke

If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.

— Charlemagne

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

— Eric Hoffer

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

— John Boyd Orr

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

— Agnes Repplier

“Often known science will revolt against unknown science”

— Tirumala

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

— Uta Hagen

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

— Malcolm X

“...The cry of revolt against such a god [a god which just affirms the world as it is] is nearer the truth…

— Karl Barth

War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state.”

— William Shakespeare

each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is…

— Eloise Lownsbery

Do you know, why was administered of the oath are democracy,, The fact that the public can not knowing,, that the people…

— Mak_786

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

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants'…

— Terry Pratchett

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust…

— Jean Tinguely

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our…

— John Calvin

A robot-arm in a factory doesn't decide minute by minute whether to rivet or revolt - it just does the job is…

— Daniel H. Wilson

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole…

— Albert Camus

As by the revolt of the first man, the image of God could be effaced from his mind and soul, so there…

— John Calvin

The dominance of [an ideology] is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the…

— Nicos Poulantzas

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against…

— Ellen Key

Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every…

— Leonard Cohen

Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free who can look…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a…

— Kamand Kojouri

Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by…

— Hilaire Belloc

If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may,…

— Bertrand Russell

There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical…

— Anonymous

The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say…

— W. H. Auden

There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not…

— Karl Marx

The Africans were oftentimes allied with the antagonist of the Republic. Now, you may want to step back and ask yourself why…

— Gerald Horne

Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.

— Edmund Burke