Common sense Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left--…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Mr. Gabriel is clearly insane, evil and dangerous and insane (and let’s not forget, you know, a demon).”

— Michelle Knudsen

“Till gradually he became desperate, lost his understanding, was plunged in a revolt that knew no bounds. Inarticulate, he moved with her at the…

— D.H. Lawrence

“At times I have discovered a new lowness of spirit, a new need to revolt, to kick against the constraints that a civilized life…

— Winston Graham

“Therefore the modern man in revolt has become practically useless for all purposes of revolt. By rebelling against everything he has lost his right…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is…

— Victor Hugo

“And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it…

— George Orwell

“He contained, even at an early age, a stirring and the desire to stir.”

— Patti Smith

“Isaac had spent so much of the past year with his head down, focused on the filth around him, that he’d forgotten the beauty…

— Susan Fanetti

“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with the blind…

— Albert Camus

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and…

— Charles Dickens

“They will not struggle energetically against him, sometimes they will even applaud him; but they do not follow him. To his vehemence they secretly…

— Alexis de Tocqueville