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Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself. — Alice Walker

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

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

Art and revolt will die only with the last man. — Albert Camus

In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach. — Lewis Mumford

There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd. — Hanna Rosin

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

The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness. — William Shakespeare

Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order. — Irving Howe

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed. — Andre Malraux

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary. — Tennessee Celeste Claflin

Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt? — J.D. Robb

Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take? — E.M. Delafield

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

If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt. — Charlemagne

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values. — Ayn Rand

The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment. — Czeslaw Milosz

Badass.'" My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was nothing he needed ever to sample again. — Michael Chabon

America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation. — Henry Steele Commager

Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire. — Emile M. Cioran

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them. — George Bernard Shaw

Which was one reason why Revolt of the Zombie Strippers was being shot in Gallup and not in a warehouse in Van Nuys. — Janet Evanovich

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. — Oscar Wilde

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'. — Edward Abbey

The revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality. — Rebecca Solnit

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself. — Whittaker Chambers

Revolt and terror pay a price.
Order and law have a cost. — Carl Sandburg

Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property. — Edmund Burke

I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings. — Georges Rouault

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt. — Ann Demeulemeester

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

Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright. — Georges Bernanos

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

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

I know. I'm sorry. But weariness is a kind of madness. And there are times when the only feeling I have is one of mad revolt. — Albert Camus

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man. — Holbrook Jackson

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

Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. — Paul Tillich

Growth is a revolt against natural degradation. — Kevin Focke

How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass? — Joseph Stalin

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

The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets. — Hoyt W. Fuller

Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n. — John Milton

Addiction is a revolt of the soul. — Yehuda Berg

Just so you know, every part of my body is calling me a 'dickhead' right now and trying to revolt against me. — Deena Bright

Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live. — Ludwig Von Mises

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

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

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination. — Simone De Beauvoir

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Now it's like my whole body is suddenly in revolt. No more. Not one day more. Not one more hour. My body wants sex. — Ruby Redhead

Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips. — Harold Macmillan

Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants. — Fidel Castro

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature. — Albert Camus

Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents! — George Habash

Revolt is my new - cable music network. It's distributed through Time Warner and Comcast. And to put it simply, it is the ESPN of music. — Sean Combs

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right. — Henrik Ibsen

The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God. — Mikhail Bakunin

To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist. — Uta Hagen

We revolt simply because, for many reasons, # WeCantBreathe . — Frantz Fanon

The world doesn't end in revolt and revolution ... it ends in apathy. — Nick Shamhart

What bloody man is that? He can report,
As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
The newest state. — William Shakespeare

Healing is a kind of revolt...all successful revolts begin in secret. — Stephen King

It was like my hormones had decided to stage a revolt whenever he got within a ten-foot radius. — Lili St. Crow

When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity. — Pierre Corneille

Love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny. — Diane Ackerman

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. — Albert Camus

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. — Eloise Lownsbery

Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt. — Mason Cooley

Internal imperatives are all the more powerful and therefore all the more of an inducement to revolt. — Milan Kundera

God's anger is the toil and suffering of man. Man's anger is the love and worship of his enemy. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame. — Orson Welles

The time for revolt is now, and the time for revolt is always! — Bryant McGill

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less. — Aaron Swartz

The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice. — John Henry Cox

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt. — Alberto Moravia

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

With [Columbus'] sailors ready to revolt, land--as if cued by a hack playwright--suddenly materialized at the horizon on October 12, 1492. — Alan Axelrod

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt ... — Antonin Artaud

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill. — Thomas Sowell

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. — Albert Camus

Sin is a revolt against God. — Billy Graham

Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Essay on tragedy.
(1) The silence of Prometheus.
(2) The Elizabethans.
(3) Moliere.
(4) The spirit of revolt. — Albert Camus

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

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.

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

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. — Octavio Paz

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

Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government. — Lincoln Steffens

Automobiles are unreliable and dangerous slaves. They frequently revolt and kill their masters. I hate them. — Michael D. O'Brien

I think Russia agreed to it because they're facing a revolt of the Islamic States. — Orson Scott Card

Revolt is the right of the people — John Locke

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare. — Christina Stead

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly. — Albert Camus

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