Atheism Quote by C. S. Lewis

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be…

— G.K. Chesterton

“One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. It is an…

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus

Whoever is the cause of another becoming powerful, is ruined himself; for that power is produced by him either through craft or force; and…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and imaginations but…

— Nigel Gibson

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

— Anton Chekhov

Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.

— Anne Rice

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

— Thomas Starr King

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.

— Michael J. Sullivan

This is that eloquence the ancients represented as lightning, bearing down every opposer; this the power which has turned whole assemblies into astonishment, admiration…

— Oliver Goldsmith

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

— Albert Camus