Quotes of: Revolts Keyword

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Simone Weil

Governments don't spy on you for your protection, they spy on you to see if you're planning a revolt.

Lori Goodwin

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Howard Mumford Jones

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.

Elliott Abrams

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.

Irving Babbitt

I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'

Ian Mcewan

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

John Boyd Orr

There's nothing so fearsome as the revolt of a sheep," said de Marsay.

The Human Comedy: Selected Stories

In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

Taylor Caldwell

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Lewis Mumford

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.

Jim Morrison

I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against it quite early.

Francois Gautier

What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country.

John Linder

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

William Hazlitt

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Herbert Hoover

In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others.

Contradictionary

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

March: Book One

The GR site has acquired its market value through the work of its community.

Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt

Let us revolt against the nightmare, and work together for a kinder world.

Voice of Reason

In my head maybe it was a test of love, because there are things about illness which I find revolting.

Wish I Was Here