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• In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

  Bertrand Russell

  Realist, Results, Idealism

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Theory of Knowledge: The 1913 Manuscript”, p.6, Routledge

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• Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

  Georges Bernanos

  Daughter, Prayer, Despair

  Georges Bernanos (1938). “A diary of my times”

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• Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

  John Boyd Orr

  Rivals, Empires, Defeat

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• I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Liberty, Three

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

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Hydrogen Bomb, Soul

  "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb". Book by Gar Alperovitz, 1996.

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• Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.

  Leonard Cohen

  War, Israel, Land

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.27, McClelland & Stewart

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• So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?

  Robert Fisk

  Morning, Successful, Army

  "Robert Fisk: The shocking truth about 'shock and awe'" by Robert Fisk, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2003.

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• I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this.

  Alec Issigonis

  America, Car, Looks

  "Alec Issigonis Dies; Auto Designer, 81, Introduced the Mini" by Constance L. Hays, www.nytimes.com. 1988.

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• 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

  Order, People, Church

  "Luther". Book by Hartmann Grisar, vol. 4, p. 126, 1915.

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• We are bound first to imform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are struggling for, what they are struggling against, and how the struggle stands- from day to day...as best you can; and second, to spread this knowledge among others, and endeavor to do what little you can to awaken the consciousness and sympathy of others.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Struggle, People, Littles

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• I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And so we all begin, determined to better our fathers' performances, knowing we can change the very nature of humanity, make it better, cleaner. But then daggers strike in the night, and peasants revolt, and all manner of atrocities become a necessity as breakfast. Only Princes believe in the greater good. Kings know there is only Reign, and all things may be committed in its holy name.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Strong, Kings, Father

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• Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Hands, Weapons

  "Mort (Discworld, Book 4)". Book by Terry Pratchett, November 12, 1987.

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• Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.

  Edith Wharton

  Believe, Archer, Intelligent

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2047, Delphi Classics

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• I believe in life and in people. I feel obliged to advocate their highest ideals as long as I believe them to be true. I also see myself compelled to revolt against ideals I believe to be false, since recoiling from rebellion would be a form of treason

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Believe, Long, People

  Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.329, Anchor

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• I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Lying, Age, Majority

  HENRIK IBSEN; SIDNEY KINGSLEY; SIDNEY HOWARD (1961). “AND ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE; MEN IN WHITE; YELLOW JACK”

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• In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.

  Woody Allen

  Party, Two, Dresses

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful

  Albert Camus

  Steps, Accepting, Dead Ends

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.346, Vintage

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• A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Moving, People, Movement

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.

  Alberto Moravia

  Song, Bird, Theme

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• If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.

  Albert Camus

  Struggle, Fate, Darkness

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.60, Vintage

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• On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

  Ellen Willis

  Illustration, Rope, Levels

  Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press

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• Eve doubted God, and I as a child of God am now to be exactly the opposite: I am to believe him. Eve doubted, and mankind in revolt doubts God. To believe him, not just when I accept Christ as Savior, but every moment, one moment at a time: this is the Christian life, and this is true spirituality.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Christian, Children

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.132, NavPress

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• The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

  Ayn Rand

  Moral, Cult, Values

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.74, Penguin

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• It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Struggle, Essence

  "Heart of Darkness". Book by Joseph Conrad, 1902.

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• He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

  Mervyn Peake

  Independence, Saws, Seeds

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.21, The Overlook Press

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