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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
Strong leaders are harassed, imprisoned or assassinated, which are great deterrents if you want to silence a firebrand and suppress a revolt.
The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks.
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.
I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
You can put Trump in the White House, but you need to prepare for a revolt because I'm going nuts.
The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.
The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.
We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.
All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.
Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!
So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was considered the worthiest thing you could try to do.
... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.
I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?
America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.
[It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven.
I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.
There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
At Revolt, everyone's always open minded and always coming together for a solution.
In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.
On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.
The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.
Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.
You couldnt get a job playing in a club unless you played so much Top 40 and so many Beatles songs. I just went into a sort of revolt.
The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.
The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect.
I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.
Joy, not grit, is the hallmark of holy obedience. We need to be light-hearted in what we do to avoid taking ourselves too seriously. It is a cheerful revolt against self and pride.
I don't think anything will change until Americans revolt and get it into their heads that they need to be informed voters instead of just listening to the paid political ads.
Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.
Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.
Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don’t adjust! Revolt against the reality!
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .
European pantywaists might keep voting for high-spending governments, but the U.S. was founded on a popular revolt against taxation.
I had to get a close-hand view of the misery and unhappiness of a man made world, before I reached the point where I could successfully revolt against it.
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new.
Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are free and from that centre you act.
Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.
I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.
