Revolt Quotes

202 quotes by 165 authors

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'. — Edward Abbey
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of… — Fredric Jameson
How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in… — Aron Nimzowitsch
It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a radical conflict of black against white or as a purely American problem.… — Malcolm X
Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire. — Emile M. Cioran
. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life -… — Ellen Glasgow
Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Without total freedom, every perception, every objective regard, is twisted. It is only the man who is totally free who can look and understand immediately.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips. — Harold MacMillan
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention,… — Irving Babbitt
Iâ€™m frightened of eggs, worse than frightened; they revolt me. That round white thing without any holes, and when you break it, inside thereâ€™s that… — Alfred Hitchcock
Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts… — Andre Breton
I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could… — Emmeline Pankhurst
All this we see, and, therefore, instead of inanely repeating the old formula, Respect the law, we say, Despise law and all its Attributes! In… — Peter Kropotkin
The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I… — William Butler Yeats
The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it — Mignon McLaughlin
You couldnt get a job playing in a club unless you played so much Top 40 and so many Beatles songs. I just went into… — Gregg Allman
It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt. — Benjamin Tucker

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