Revolt Against Quotes
36 quotes by 35 authors
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Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere…
— Rebecca West
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Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern…
— George F. Kennan
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
— Andre Malraux
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The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts…
— Mordechai Anielewicz
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You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod, discipline, violence, the…
— Gustav Landauer
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The dominance of [an ideology] is shown by the fact that the dominated classes live their conditions of political existence through the forms of dominant…
— Nicos Poulantzas
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I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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All this we see, and, therefore, instead of inanely repeating the old formula, Respect the law, we say, Despise law and all its Attributes! In…
— Peter Kropotkin
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Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
— Fidel Castro
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In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.
— Lewis Mumford
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There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating…
— Edwidge Danticat
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A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation
— H. L. Mencken
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Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It…
— Richard J. Foster
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The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.
— Czeslaw Milosz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.
— Holbrook Jackson
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