Revolt Quotes

202 quotes by 160 authors

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination. — Simone de Beauvoir
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt),… — June Jordan
It is (to describe it figuratively) as if an author were to make a slip of the pen, and as if this clerical error became… — Soren Kierkegaard
Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt — Juvenal
Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into… — Chuck Todd
We revolt simply because, for many reasons, #â€Ž WeCantBreathe . — Frantz Fanon
A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . . — Antonin Artaud
I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. — Alfred Hitchcock
There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts… — C.S. Lewis
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her,… — Rebecca Solnit
Addiction is a revolt of the soul. — Yehuda Berg
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of… — Ralph Adams Cram
Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. — Albert Camus
That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just… — Eliphas Levi
The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people… — Sam Lipsyte
How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains… — William Shakespeare
I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and capitalists alone, are guilty of war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty,… — Anne Frank

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