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Revolt Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people…
- There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick.…
More Revolt Quotes
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. — Albert Camus
- Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is… — Rebecca West
- It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence. — James Russell Lowell
- If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he… — Charles Horton Cooley
- There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating… — Gelett Burgess