Best Uprising Sayings
107 Uprising quotes by 100 unique authors
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Job's avoidance of rebellion against God has nothing to do with God being good or wise or anything like that; it's strictly because God is…
— George C. Williams
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Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but…
— Jennifer Capriati
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In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate…
— Diane Ackerman
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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.…
— Octavio Paz
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To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.
— Richard Hofstadter
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I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who…
— Linton Kwesi Johnson
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I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of…
— Hugh Masekela
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Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
— Bodhidharma
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As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we…
— Steven Pressfield
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The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
— Rita Mae Brown
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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
— Khalil Gibran
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would…
— Andre Gide
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The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
— Edwin Louis Cole
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on…
— Gail Collins
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Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
— Bo Derek
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Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
— Marjory Stoneman Douglas
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
— Frederick Douglass
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Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him…
— Eminem
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Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!
— Marianne Faithfull
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Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Whoever can surprise well must conquer.
— John Paul Jones
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Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!
— Ferdinand Lassalle
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