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  • Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse. -- William Shakespeare
  • The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me. -- Ralph Peters
  • Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. -- Lewis Mumford
  • The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. -- Herbert Hoover
  • There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry. -- Ivo Andric
  • 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
  • Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics. -- Mary Ritter Beard
  • In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties. -- Jose Maria Aznar
  • If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. -- Charles Horton Cooley
  • When one is pretending, the entire body revolts. -- Anais Nin
  • Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat. -- Agnes Repplier
  • The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods. -- William Hazlitt
  • It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence. -- James Russell Lowell
  • I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts. -- Barbara Kingsolver
  • General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked. -- Edmund Burke
  • In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole. -- Harold Rosenberg
  • From the beginning however, there was resistence to Portuguese mastery over Kotte. While Dharmapala was alive there were two major revolts, one led by Akaragama Appuhamy in 1594, and the other by Edirille rala in 1594-96. -- Dominicus Corea
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