Revolt Quotes

202 quotes by 160 authors

The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man. — Holbrook Jackson
Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind.… — Octavio Paz
Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. — Octavio Paz
It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and… — Bernard Lazare
The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me. — Ralph Peters
The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way… — Criss Jami
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. — Ernest Mandel
Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San… — John Steinbeck
Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God. — Mikhail Bakunin
The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us… — Joyce Cary
Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below… — Mary Ritter Beard
There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry. — Ivo Andric
Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government. — Lincoln Steffens
To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants… — Herman Gorter
O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows,… — William Shakespeare
The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of performance, mentally indifferent… — Jean Baudrillard
I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings. — Georges Rouault
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. — Paul Tillich

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