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“The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all…

— G.K. Chesterton

The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

— Peter Kropotkin

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

— Albert Camus

Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.

— Anton Chekhov

Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is not just…

— Grace Lee Boggs

“So many revolutionaries are intellectuals, a class of people whose aspirations tend to run ahead of their capabilities. Just”

— William T. Vollmann

A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.

— Benazir Bhutto

In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression.…

— Cornel West

“But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt —…

— Charlotte Brontë

In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.

— John Loeffler

“The attitude of uncompromising heroism is attractive, and appeals especially to the dramatic instinct. But the purpose of the serious revolutionary is not personal…

— Bertrand Russell

Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and…

— Octavio Paz