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This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising. -- Joseph Brodsky
Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country. -- Daniel Ortega
Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest. -- Yasser Arafat
While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm. -- Rita Mae Brown
We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded. -- Calamity Jane
There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started. -- Anthony Weiner
The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people. -- Shimon Peres
Whoever can surprise well must conquer. -- John Paul Jones
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. -- Jim Morrison
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism. -- George Henry Lewes
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration. -- Edwin Louis Cole
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. -- Frederick Douglass
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping. -- Bo Derek
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously. -- David Byrne
Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo. -- Steve Lacy
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world. -- Karl Barth
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. -- Susan B. Anthony
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. -- Thomas Carlyle
You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought. -- John Keble
Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all. -- Frances Power Cobbe
Promise Keepers was looking for a movement that can actualize the hope of Jesus, the hope that we see. And 'Uprising' was what they were looking for. -- Erwin McManus
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time. -- Mary Oliver
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. -- Andrea Dworkin
I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all along was to start writing fiction, and I guess one day I'd just had enough. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion. -- Eminem
Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity. -- Jennifer Capriati
Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising! -- Neal Shusterman
In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds. -- Diane Ackerman
More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution. -- Adolf Hitler
Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats. -- Daniel H. Wilson
It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media. -- Barton Gellman
There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there. -- Jesse Jackson
Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall Street overwhelmingly supported his candidacy. -- Glenn Greenwald
My father is Hungarian and moved to Britain during the uprising, and my Spanish mum comes from Galicia; they moved here at the end of the Fifties. -- Anton du Beke
Two's company and three's a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70 or 700 or 7000 very quickly if the sense of being wronged is felt broadly and truly enough. -- Michael Leunig
Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power. -- Eduardo Paes
My ancestors include Monahwee, who was one of the leaders in the Red Stick War, which was the largest Indian uprising in history, and Osceola, who refused to sign a treaty with the United States. -- Joy Harjo
The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator. -- Shimon Peres
I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts. -- Hugh Masekela
The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation. -- Jesse Jackson
Robopocalypse' explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments the robot uprising, fails to recognize the coming storm, and then is rocked to the core by methodical, crippling attacks. -- Daniel H. Wilson
If we get to shoot the third one, which I'm really hoping we do, the third one's great. There's a big uprising and rebellion, and my character Gale's a big part of that. If we get to shoot that, I'll be very, very pleased. -- Liam Hemsworth
The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising. -- Gail Collins
It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while. -- Seth Grahame-Smith
I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative. -- Geraldine Brooks
Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when a poem has started a revolution or a rebellion or an uprising, but it doesn't happen that often, and if you put the number of poems next to the number of political acts, it would be pretty slim. -- Daphne Gottlieb
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An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance. -- Keith Olbermann
Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies. -- Vijay Prashad
Hazrat Mahal, Begum of Oudh, during the national liberation uprising of 1857-59 in India headed the rebels. -- Karl Marx
Those who are opposed to armed uprising ... must be ruthlessly kicked out as enemies, traitors and cowards. -- Vladimir Lenin
... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny. -- Diane Ackerman
There's been a sort of mini-revolution, an uprising, as was long overdue, about these subject matters: ethnicity and gender equality. -- Natalie Dormer
To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising. -- Richard Hofstadter
I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliban. -- Ahmed Rashid
Okay, Libya. President Obama supported the uprising, correct?... No, that's a different one. I've got to go back, got all this stuff twirling around in my head. -- Herman Cain
An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance. -- Franz Grillparzer
The air's warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes. -- Suzanne Collins
The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us. -- Saoirse Ronan
All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected. -- Bill McKibben
As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture. -- Steven Pressfield
The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart. -- Abraham Lincoln

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