Quotes About Revolts

#1. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. Spiritual movements are revolts of thought against inertia, of the few against the many; of those who because they are strong in spirit are strongest alone against those who can express themselves only in the mass and the mob, and who are significant only because they are numerous.

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.

Ralph Peters

#4. Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Lewis Mumford

#5. A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.

R. H. Tawney

#6. 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

#7. Unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime.

Alexandre Dumas

#8. General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Edmund Burke

#9. With grand and lofty natures, the revolts of the flesh and the senses when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force the captain to show himself.

Victor Hugo

#10. Healing is a kind of revolt...all successful revolts begin in secret.

Stephen King

#11. I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. Amongst civilized nations revolts are rarely excited, except by such persons as have nothing to lose by them;

Alexis De Tocqueville

#13. The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for the well-being enjoyed by others, always barbarous - cringing in misfortune and insolent in prosperity.

Voltaire

#14. It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.

Martin Luther

#15. 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

#16. The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Herbert Hoover

#17. In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

Harold Rosenberg

#18. Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts on the mind very much as drugs do; like drugs, it creates a certain state of need and can push man to frightful revolts.

Andre Breton

#19. The Romantics didn't need [the bible] because they found their own fire; but almost every other quasi-revolt has gone back to it, because when the heart revolts, it wants outrageous things that cannot possibly be factual. Robes and incense and larger-than-life and miracles and heroes.

Jeanette Winterson

#20. Monday 29 January 1821 [Halifax]
I love and only love the fairer sex and thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any love but theirs.

Anne Lister

#21. The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

Joyce Cary

#22. 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

#23. Then there's those wizards on it, who must all be gifted hydrophobes - " "You mean they hate water?" said Twoflower. "No, that wouldn't work," said Rincewind. "Hate is an attracting force, just like love. They really loathe it, the very idea of it revolts them.

Terry Pratchett

#24. Who me? I play scales. The scales of
dead fish of oil-slicked seas. My sister
blows wind through the hollows of fallen
trees. And we are the echoes of eternity.
Maybe you've heard of us.
We do rebirths, revolts, and resurrections.

Saul Williams

#25. To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up bombing ordinary city folk. For the US to be bombing Sunni towns all these years later on behalf of Mr. al-Maliki would be to invite terrorism against the US.

Juan Cole

#26. The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.

William Hazlitt

#27. This makeover would make piercings and tattoos and brandings look so lame, all those little fashion revolts so safe that they themselves only become fashionable. Those little paper tiger attempts to reject looking good that only end up reinforcing it.

Chuck Palahniuk

#28. 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

#29. When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.

Anais Nin

#30. 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

#31. There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

Ivo Andric

#32. Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,
Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.

William Shakespeare

#33. It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

James Russell Lowell

#34. The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.

Danny Glover

#35. The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

Agnes Repplier

#36. Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
[On Water]

Guy De Maupassant