Barricades Quotes
36 quotes by 36 authors
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on…
— Mac Davis
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A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades.…
— Abbott Lawrence Lowell
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Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.
— Paul Bowles
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If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.
— Betty Friedan
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I am not a capitalist soldier; I am a proletarian revolutionist. I do not belong to the regular army of the plutocracy, but to the…
— Eugene V. Debs
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Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness…
— Melvin B. Tolson
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Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to…
— Questlove
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Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what…
— Helen Humphreys
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Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering in their yards…
— Florence King
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At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting…
— William Cronon
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The death agony of the barricade was about to begin.For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de la Chanvrerie…
— Victor Hugo
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To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.
— Oswald Chambers
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Americans are tired of the games and the lies of today's media. They want the truth. Imagine this. No censors, no barricades, no statists. We…
— Ron Paul
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The preservation of friendship is seen as opportunism. You are required to be in one camp or the other. You are enjoined to cut your…
— Jean Cocteau
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With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
— Antonin Artaud
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It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites.…
— Criss Jami
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We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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We do not want to be in the middle of an axis that starts in the Mediterranean and ends in Tehran. We do not want…
— Walid Jumblatt
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In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about…
— Honore de Balzac
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