“Every so often I revolt, even against what I believe in with all my heart. I have to attack everything, myself included.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I don’t encourage chaos to initiate a revolution. The only reason to revolt is because the people find the government revolting.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
You couldnt get a job playing in a club unless you played so much Top 40 and so many Beatles songs. I… — Gregg Allman Copy Share Image
I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings. — Georges Rouault Copy Share Image
“Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, seeing our history told in this light, the ones who did rebel, the ones who did revolt, the revolutionaries, excited… — Jurnee Smollett Copy Share Image
In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do… — Woody Allen 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
“Be a provocateur! Provoke people to think! Provoke sleepers to awake! Provoke slaves to revolt against their masters! Provoke everyone to gain… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust -… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are… — Michael Ignatieff 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
Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. — Ernest Mandel 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
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
Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order. — Irving Howe 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
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
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
“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
[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
“Just so you know, every part of my body is calling me a 'dickhead' right now and trying to revolt against me.” — Deena Bright Copy Share Image
This writer, and all others of his stamp, should remember that the colonies are now in a state of revolt and rebellion… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
National discord is, like religion, a standardized form of revolt; and the moment a revolt is standardized, it is no longer a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd. — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what… — Osman Baydemir 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
Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme… — Alberto Moravia 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