Revolt Quotes - Page 12

• 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

  Pride, Light, Self

  57 Copy quote

• The place resembled a new model prison, or one that had achieved a provisional utopia after principled revolt, or maybe a homeless shelter for people with liberal arts degrees. The cages brought to mind those labs with their death-fuming vents near my college studio. These kids were part of some great experiment. It was maybe the same one in which I'd once been a subject. Unlike me, though, or the guinea pigs and hares, they were happy, or seemed happy, or were blogging about how they seemed happy.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Art, Kids, College

  Sam Lipsyte (2010). “The Ask: A Novel”, p.187, Macmillan

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity.

  Eliphas Levi

  Christian, Europe, Names

  27 Copy quote

• Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.

  James Joyce

  Daughter, Memories, War

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.2218, Delphi Classics

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Lewis Mumford

  Family, Father, Grandmother

  The Brown Decades ch. 1 (1931)

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lying, Years, Creative

  Emily Bronte, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë (1851). “Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey: In Two Volumes”, p.19

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I mean, in 1979 I was seven. I do remember punk, though, as a playground phenomenon, and remember that it was exciting to us. It really was, to a five- or six-year-old, quite a thrilling enticement to revolt. The anarchy sign scratched in desk tops, and so on.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Mean, Years, Six Year Olds

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You just have to get out of the bubble and you have to quit listening to yourself. People are really hurt. The irony of this is, though, had Ms.[Hillary] Clinton listened to her husband instead of her boss, she might could have stopped this Rust Belt redneck revolt.

  Mary Matalin

  Hurt, Husband, Redneck

  Source: abcnews.go.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.

  Octavio Paz

  Tradition, Modern, Break

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.17, Arcade Publishing

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.

  John Steinbeck

  Cities, Paris, San Francisco

  18 Copy quote

• You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!

  Gustav Landauer

  Mean, Government, Order

  46 Copy quote

• When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Errors, Democracies Have

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 12, p. 330, 1977.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men, left to themselves, become gnostics. They may swagger like peacocks, but in their heart of hearts they all think sex an indignity and wish they could beget themselves on themselves. Hence the aggressive hostility toward women so manifest in most club-car stories.

  W. H. Auden

  Sex, Heart, Men

  32 Copy quote

• Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Justice, Correcting, Against Love

  Gary Miles Chassman, Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (2002). “In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.

  Carl Sandburg

  Law, Order, Pay

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

  Anais Nin

  Being Yourself, Acceptance, Unique

  "Winter of Artifice". Book by Anais Nin, 1939.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.

  Eric Hoffer

  People, Suffering, Taste

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness within the immense collectivity, the fact remains that we are absolutely free today if we choose to will our existence in its finiteness, a finiteness which is open on the infinite. And in fact, any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Philosophy, Real, Ignorance

  "The Ethics of Ambiguity". Book by Simone de Beauvoir. Conclusion, 1947.

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

  Jim Morrison

  Starting

  15 Copy quote

• 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

  Respect, Heart, Pride

  19 Copy quote

• 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

  Tyrants, Long, Over You

  42 Copy quote

• 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

  War, Home, Mean

  James Madison (1787). “The Writings of James Madison: 1787. The journal of the Constitutional convention”, p.317

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Civilization, Numbers, Perspective

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

  49 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Hurt, People, Forgiving

  271 Copy quote

• As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  God, Long, Heaven

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1980). “Bakunin on anarchism”

  42 Copy quote

  Show source