Uprising Quotes · Page 2

The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

— Toyotomi Hideyoshi

There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.

— Jesse Jackson

Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards.

— Vladimir Lenin

For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

— Karl Barth

“Why after the dust settles, someone has to come by and blow at it, stirring it up into the air again?”

— Anthony Liccione

Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.

— Daniel Ortega

... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.

— Diane Ackerman

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit…

— Phillip E. Johnson

All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to…

— Bill McKibben

[Francisco] Franco's army was mainly Moorish. They were recruiting people from Morocco to come to Spain. There was an uprising in Morocco…

— Noam Chomsky

Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution…

— Terry Eagleton

We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us.…

— Art Garfunkel

The first intifada, I was then commander of Central Command, commanding the West Bank, basically. And I know to what extent the…

— Ehud Barak

I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee…

— Geraldine Brooks

As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In…

— Steven Pressfield

Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an…

— J. P. Donleavy

I wouldn't call it naive but silly. History does not work like this. If you look at the dynamics of Eastern Europe…

— Tariq Ramadan

I was interning in the CBS sports affiliate in Atlanta with Robin Roberts… I was taking notes on a Braves-Padres game, and…

— Samantha Power

The technique that only uses explosion or expansion forces is lethal and hostile to the nature. This kind of technique must miss…

— Viktor Schauberger

Helen Rosevere was a British medical missionary in the Congo years ago during an uprising. Her faith was strong and her trust…

— Charles R. Swindoll

It is impossible to put into words what we have been through. What happened exceeded our boldest dreams. The Germans fled twice…

— Mordechai Anielewicz

I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there…

— Eve Ensler

If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!

— Kevin Spacey

While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror…

— Rita Mae Brown

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

I have some friends who were involved in the Tahrir Square uprising in Egypt.

— Morgan Spector

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

— Angela Merkel

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by…

— Frances Power Cobbe

“the machines slowly rebuilding with recent history, having been wiped completely during the uprising. Access”

— Hugh Howey

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power…

— John Keble

“every uprising took place because of this doubt, this feeling, that we’re in the bad place right here.”

— Hugh Howey

Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.

— Steve Lacy

To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

— Richard Hofstadter

There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality.

— Natalie Dormer

It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.

— Barton Gellman

'Uprising' was requested by so many politicians in America for use in their rallies, and we turned them down on a regular…

— Matt Bellamy