Revolt Quotes
202 quotes by 160 authors
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One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and…
— Andre Breton
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Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to…
— Leonard Cohen
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Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
— Georges Bernanos
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The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed…
— Francois Guizot
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If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you…
— Osman Baydemir
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All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal…
— Jean Helion
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If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.
— William Hazlitt
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There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended,…
— Karl Marx
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One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place…
— John Dos Passos
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All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who…
— Indira Gandhi
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A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a…
— Sigmund Freud
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Revolt is my new - cable music network. It's distributed through Time Warner and Comcast. And to put it simply, it is the ESPN of…
— Puff Daddy
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The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
— William O. Douglas
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There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him…
— William Hazlitt
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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
— Eric Hoffer
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The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
— Herbert Hoover
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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
— James Joyce
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Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they…
— Ellen Key
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