Delight Quote by Raoul Vaneigem

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest…

— Thomas Carlyle

In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting.…

— Woody Allen

I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

— Vijay Prashad

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

— Leon Trotsky

“The general who does not advance to seek glory, or does not withdraw to avoid punishment, but cares for only the people's security and…

— Sun Tzu

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as…

— Ba Jin

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

— Edmund Burke

The supreme challenge of Labor is to recognise our 'revolutionary moment' when it arrives. And to have the courage to seize it - wholly,…

— Bill Shorten

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

— George Bernard Shaw

“FESTIVITY BREEDS CREATIVITY. RIGIDITY BREEDS DESPAIR”

— Julia Cameron

“The furious revolt of the first weeks had given place to a vast despondency, not to be taken for resignation, though it was no…

— Albert Camus

INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

— Ambrose Bierce