Conception Quote by Herbert Read

Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and…

— Octavio Paz

“Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully,…

— Rahul Pandita

The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

— Peter Kropotkin

To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

— George Bernard Shaw

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so…

— Anonymous

“In reality the mere privations is not enoughto cause an insurrection: if it were the masses would always be in revolt”

— Trotsky

Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in…

— Victor Hugo

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

— William Powell

“only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.”

— John Steinbeck

Revolting means for good ends make the ends of themselves revolting.

— Anton Chekhov

In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

— Harold Rosenberg