Revolt Quotes

202 quotes by 160 authors

A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of… — R. H. Tawney
Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a… — Thomas Sankara
Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants. — Fidel Castro
In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach. — Lewis Mumford
Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating… — Edwidge Danticat
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of… — Georges Rouault
The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious… — Franz Oppenheimer
The entire force of the Conciliar revolt comes from the fact that it has apparently been imposed by the authority of the Church. How many… — Unknown Author
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation — H. L. Mencken
A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the specialists even know… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. â€¦ Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard for what is… — Unknown Author
The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature. — Albert Camus
Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself. — Alice Walker
Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted to live as… — Sheikh Abdullah
Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It… — Richard J. Foster
How strange that excision â€“ female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation â€“ of little girls should revolt… — Michel Onfray
Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of your… — Heather King
The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment. — Czeslaw Milosz

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