Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
“The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and… — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
“With [Columbus'] sailors ready to revolt, land--as if cued by a hack playwright--suddenly materialized at the horizon on October 12, 1492.” — Ph.D Alan Axelrod Copy Share Image
Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such,… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Foreign policy commands attention when it's crisis management. A street revolt breaks out in Egypt or Libya or Kiev and everyone asks,… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod,… — Gustav Landauer 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
I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I always imagined I would have a life very different from the one that was imagined for me, but I understood from… — Leonor Fini Copy Share Image
The bicycle is a vehicle of revolution. It can destroy the tyranny of the automobile as effectively as the printing press brought… — Daniel Behrman Copy Share Image
“Some stood up for the prince, declaring that he would set things to right, while others argued that nothing good could ever… — Lindsey Renee Backen 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
But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they… — Thomas Paine 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
The Romans have provided a lot of writers with a model for various interstellar empires, of course, and no wonder. The Roman… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Ja sam sve što kažete da jesam, i još gore od toga. I da nisam, ipak jesam. Šta imam od toga?! (Bol… — Marko Šelić Copy Share Image
... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. — Jim Morrison 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
Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
“As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
“Saint Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin, and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher.… — Corey Robin Copy Share Image
In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Strong leaders are harassed, imprisoned or assassinated, which are great deterrents if you want to silence a firebrand and suppress a revolt. — Gary Yourofsky Copy Share Image
Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
“The furious revolt of the first weeks had given place to a vast despondency, not to be taken for resignation, though it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image