Revolt Quotes

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
Jim Morrison

Freedom, Through, Start

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

Freedom, Road, Meaning

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.
Aristotle

Mind, May, State

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.
Sigmund Freud

Nor, Number, Existence

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
Bertrand Russell

Experience, Against, Word

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
Karl Marx

May, Said, Labor

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.
Mignon McLaughlin

Pretty, Young, Often

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
James Madison

Hatred, Pride, Labor

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

Give, Rise, Oppression

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
Eric Hoffer

Suffering, Taste, Actual

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
James Joyce

Poetry, Sense, Against

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.
Mikhail Bakunin

God, Long, Against

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.
Chinua Achebe

Women, Men, Different

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Andre Malraux

Art, Against, Fate

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Mikhail Bakunin

Life, Against, Natural

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

Great, Romantic, Leaders

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

Hope, Again, Dead

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.
Ellen Key

Men, War, Everything

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

Defeat, Won, Within

We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt.
King Hussein I

Great, Spirit, Rights

The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion.
Algernon Sidney

Cannot, Nation, General

A robot-arm in a factory doesn't decide minute by minute whether to rivet or revolt - it just does the job is has literally been trained to do. It's if and when we build a conscious robot that we may have to worry.
Daniel H. Wilson

Job, May, Worry

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.
William O. Douglas

History, Deep, Sources

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

Great, Fight, Country

Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.
Ernest Mandel

Society, Against, Five

This writer, and all others of his stamp, should remember that the colonies are now in a state of revolt and rebellion against their rightful sovereign.
James Chalmers

Remember, Others, Against

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!
Herman Gorter

Judge, Moment, Poor

In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.
Ralph A. Cram

Character, Evil, Against

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.
Ellen Willis

Him, Impressive, Level

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.
Jean Tinguely

Art, Complete, Total

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