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Revolt Quotes by Octavio Paz
- 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.…
- Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
More Revolt Quotes
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched… — Chinua Achebe
- The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master… — Mikhail Bakunin
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. — Albert Camus
- I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. — Albert Camus
- The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like… — C.S. Lewis