Uprisings Quotes

#1. There will always be new opposites, class struggles and uprisings. History has no ending.

Henning Mankell

#2. The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Chinua Achebe

#3. In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.

Bashar Al-Assad

#4. For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.

Kristin Cashore

#5. And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

Madeleine Albright

#6. Don't forget that the peace treaties with Egypt and later with Jordan have already survived several tests: two wars with Lebanon, two Palestinian uprisings, the attack on Gaza, the murder of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

Tom Segev

#7. Napoleon, true to his word, began the work of preparing Haiti for the transfer of former American slaves, about a third the number of them as there had been prior to the uprisings and reprisals.

Billy Roper

#8. Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.

Edward Ball

#9. The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

#10. Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

Wole Soyinka

#11. 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

#12. No sooner are her glass toes thrust into the mud grave than the revolutions begin. Uprisings, fire and steel. The prince is lynched in the ballroom with the dead girl's hair. Royalty's a thing of the past. The kingdom chooses their monarch.
Naturally, they elect a wolf.

Allyse Near

#13. Lord, remind us that it is not always agitated uprisings and nonstop activity which lead to justice, but that change often comes through the quietcommitment of a small group of people. Help us raise our small body of people to set about quietly becoming the change we want to see in the world. Amen.

Shane Claiborne

#14. A revolution does not have to eat its children. In fact, it is those who are in power who could very well initiate revolutions. Let us not be old-fashioned and think only of armed uprisings of minorities as revolutions. Any movement that seeks to overhaul established attitudes is a revolution.

F. Sionil Jose

#15. If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the people's desperate need for change.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#16. Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

Felicity Jones

#17. Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

Britta Phillips

#18. I would listen to Little Richard and Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, and I would listen to how they played their riffs, and after I taught myself that, I taught myself to play my own kind of stuff.

Brian Wilson

#19. Do you know, why I really love my helmet that much? Because it makes me 15 centimetres taller!

Alain Prost

#20. Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts
The world were poor in thanks, though every soul
Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade
Of grass, and every atomie of earth
To utter it like dew.

Philip James Bailey

#21. perhaps happiness is synchronising one's personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions.

Yuval Noah Harari