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Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly. -- Albert Camus
Revolt is the right of the people -- John Locke
Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost. -- Carl Sandburg
Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government. -- Lincoln Steffens
Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself. -- Alice Walker
Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Don't adjust! Revolt against the reality! -- Mordechai Anielewicz
Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents! -- George Habash
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission. -- Simone Weil
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. -- Eric Hoffer
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. -- James Joyce
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. -- Karl Marx
Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips. -- Harold MacMillan
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
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. -- Puff Daddy
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. -- Puff Daddy
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
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
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
I come from a world of hip-hop, but I love all types of music, and that's what Revolt will reflect. It will be home to electronic dance music, pop, hip-hop. -- Sean Combs
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
Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence. -- Herbert Read
Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art. -- Octavio Paz
I'm a big fan of Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco's book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, where they visit what they call The Sacrifice Zones of America and report on the current state of our environmental calamity. -- Alexander Weinstein
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
Revolt is designed to be a home for the next generation of musical artists, and we are investing in the artists and fans of the future. Revolt is for artists, by artists. This won't just be the P. Diddy network. -- Sean Combs
All this we see, and, therefore, instead of inanely repeating the old formula, Respect the law, we say, Despise law and all its Attributes! In place of the cowardly phrase, Obey the law, our cry, is Revolt against all laws! -- Peter Kropotkin
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
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach. -- Victor Hugo
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. -- Oscar Wilde
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it -- Mignon McLaughlin
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. -- Albert Camus
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 memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface. -- Howard Zinn
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. -- Richard J. Foster
A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower. -- C. S. Lewis
Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask. -- Charles Bukowski
Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted to live as slaves and submitted to tyrants. Now the time has come to revolt and destroy the shackle of slavery. -- Sheikh Abdullah
There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me. -- C. S. Lewis
The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people. -- James Madison
Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt. -- Ann Demeulemeester
The general revolt of a Nation cannot be called a Rebellion. -- Algernon Sidney
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. -- Albert Camus
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. -- Andre Malraux
Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. -- John Boyd Orr
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
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
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
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
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
No matter how much control kids get over the media they watch, they are still utterly powerless when it comes to the manufacturing of brands. Even a consumer revolt merely reinforces one's role as a consumer, not an autonomous or creative being. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Most people don't like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it. -- John C. Maxwell
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
If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim. -- Michael Ignatieff
Addiction is a revolt of the soul. -- Yehuda Berg
All art is a revolt against man's fate. -- Andre Malraux
When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity. -- Pierre Corneille
Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt. -- Mason Cooley
Life is but a daily oscillation between revolt and submission. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Art and revolt will die only with the last man. -- Albert Camus
I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. -- Alfred Hitchcock
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Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt -- Juvenal
The right to revolt has sources deep in our history. -- William O. Douglas
The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values. -- Ayn Rand
The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope. -- Peter Kropotkin
The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment. -- Czeslaw Milosz
To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete. -- Jean Tinguely
If [Boris Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt. -- Rupert Murdoch
The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man. -- Holbrook Jackson
America was born of revolt, flourished on dissent, became great through experimentation. -- Henry Steele Commager
If the East Timorians decide to revolt, Im sure Ill have a statement. -- George W. Bush
The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature. -- Albert Camus
If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt. -- Charlemagne
A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it. -- William Powell
All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them. -- George Bernard Shaw
Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt? -- Nora Roberts
Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property. -- Edmund Burke
The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness. -- William Shakespeare
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. -- Mignon McLaughlin
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right. -- Henrik Ibsen
The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets. -- Hoyt W. Fuller
He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt. -- Mervyn Peake
The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself. -- Whittaker Chambers
The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system! -- Malcolm X
To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist. -- Uta Hagen
Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination. -- Simone de Beauvoir
I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. -- Jim Morrison
How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass? -- Joseph Stalin
The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt. -- Benjamin Tucker
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
In the United States, people don't revolt in order to obtain freedom, but continue denying it to others. -- CrimethInc.
If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny. -- Diane Ackerman
Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame. -- Orson Welles
The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice. -- John Henry Cox
Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed. -- Andre Malraux
The so-called literature of escape, with its growing popularity, is in part a revolt against the tyranny of clocks. -- Roy Bedichek
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation -- H. L. Mencken
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright. -- Georges Bernanos
Romanticism is man's revolt against reason, as well as against the condition under which nature has compelled him to live. -- Ludwig von Mises
I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings. -- Georges Rouault
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve. -- Indira Gandhi
Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'. -- Edward Abbey
Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take? -- E. M. Delafield
The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary. -- Tennessee Celeste Claflin
Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. -- Octavio Paz
Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants. -- Fidel Castro
Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions. -- Ernest Mandel
When we revolt it's not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe -- Frantz Fanon
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. -- Albert Camus
Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature. -- Paul Tillich
In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach. -- Lewis Mumford
A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . . -- Antonin Artaud
There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt. -- Joseph Conrad
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.
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
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 crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness? -- Henrik Ibsen
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

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