“Beware the build-up of an inward wound, For it will at last burst forth; Avoid, while you can, distress to one heart,… — Saadi Copy Share Image
The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks. — Roy Bedichek Copy Share Image
Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. — Howard Mumford Jones 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
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for a variety of reasons, we can no longer… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
“It is a good luck to get a good education. And what is good education? It is to obtain an independent mind… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I am closer to the pacifist side, in that I think that the British response to German aggression, which was to try… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard… — Cid Corman Copy Share Image
What is interesting about the revolts is that they show that there is never anything purely spontaneous, and there is always some… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
Every military scenario that the Russians basically engage in their annual exercises, either on their western or eastern flank, always involved some… — Fiona Hill Copy Share Image
Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in… — Heather King Copy Share Image
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
Moammar Gadhafi and the revolt against Gadhafi was not started by the United States. It was started by the Libyan people. And… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of… — Hélder Câmara 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
there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep… — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
It may merely be apocryphal that when the Wizard saw the glass bottle he gasped, and clutched his heart. The story is… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down… — William Langland Copy Share Image
I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like… — C. S. Lewis 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
“Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
[It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“she suppressed a revolt led by the board’s executive secretary that had caused open warfare between factions of elegantly coiffed and dressed… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
European pantywaists might keep voting for high-spending governments, but the U.S. was founded on a popular revolt against taxation. — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
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