Revolts Quotes
28 quotes by 25 authors
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Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work…
— William Hazlitt
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
— Lewis Mumford
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It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.
— James Russell Lowell
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If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination…
— Charles Horton Cooley
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The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.
— Agnes Repplier
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My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were…
— Danny Glover
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To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up…
— Juan Cole
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General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
— Edmund Burke
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How is it to be explained that something inside me revolts against the playing of obvious moves? Perhaps we may perceive the underlying reason in…
— Aron Nimzowitsch
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Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts…
— Andre Breton
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A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of…
— R. H. Tawney
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Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
— Ralph Peters
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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
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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
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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
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There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.
— Ivo Andric
Who Wrote These Revolts Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 28 Revolts Quotes as follows: