Insurrection Quotes
36 quotes by 29 authors
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I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the…
— Jello Biafra
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Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of…
— Mark Twain
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Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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Short of nuclear war itself, population growth is the gravest issue the world faces. If we do not act, the problem will be solved by…
— Robert McNamara
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Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection
— Raoul Vaneigem
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Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
— Leon Trotsky
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Sin is the insurrection and rebellion of the heart against God; it turns from Him, and turns against Him; it takes up arms against God.
— Richard Alleine
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Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.
— Don Tapscott
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The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.
— Bianca Jagger
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John Brown was tried for treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.
— John Sergeant Wise
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Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.
— Marquis de Lafayette
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The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty
— Francois Guizot
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A revolution is not a dinner party [...] A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
— Mao Zedong
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Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.
— Marcelo H. del Pilar
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647;…
— Victor Hugo
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
— Wendell Phillips
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Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to…
— Mary Astell
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