Revolts Quotes

28 quotes by 25 authors

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
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. — Lewis Mumford
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 revolts the imagination… — Charles Horton Cooley
The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat. — Agnes Repplier
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
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
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
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked. — Edmund Burke
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
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
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
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
Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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.
The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me. — Ralph Peters
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
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
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
There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry. — Ivo Andric

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