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

  William Shakespeare

  Abuse, Birth, Juliet

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.51, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Let's see in those indictments you can't level at Sweden, they never tried to ban the constitution or undermine the settlement that they wanted. Well you can't say that of Canada. Any indication of revolt on the part of Quebec was either bought off, with a good deal of corruption.

  Jane Jacobs

  Levels, Sweden, Canada

  Source: aqi.quebec

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• War is a stage brought about by the standardizing of thought, revolt, and life - not by the freedom of life, not by the revolt of life.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, Stage

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• If we don't all leave the euro behind, it will explode. Either there will be a popular revolt because the people no longer want to be bled out. Or the Germans will say: Stop, we can't pay for the poor anymore.

  Marine Le Pen

  People, Want, Pay

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If I were writing about Picasso and pointed out that he painted women because he was interested in the female form, that would seem like an obvious point. I don't know why people revolt when I point out that Rockwell painted the male figure and was interested in it.

  Deborah Solomon

  Writing, People, Female

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Devil, Fiction, Infinity

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• 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

  Children, Teaching, Punishment

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• 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

  Reality, Veils, World

  Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.143, Feminist Press at CUNY

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

  Ivo Andric

  Worry, Conspiracy, Property

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• It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and doctrines of Christianity...Truly has Darmesteter written: 'The Jew was the apostle of unbelief, and every revolt of mind originated with him.'

  Bernard Lazare

  Biblical, Critical Analysis, Mind

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

  Ralph Peters

  Shameful, Disgraceful

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• The typical atheist rebels against God as a teenager rebels against his parents. When his own desires or standards are not fulfilled in the way that he sees fit, he, in revolt, storms out of the house in denial of the Word of God and in scrutiny of a great deal of those who stand by the Word of God. The epithet 'Heavenly Father' is a grand reflection, a relation to that of human nature.

  Criss Jami

  Atheist, Father, Teenager

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.78, Criss Jami

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• Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions.

  Ernest Mandel

  Hundred, Thousand, Workers

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• Revolt is not reform, and one revolutionary administration is not good government.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Government, Reform, Administration

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• a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

  Rebecca West

  Oysters, Palate, Please

  Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.484, Open Road Media

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• God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

  William Matthews

  Ideas, Choices, Coercion

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• The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.

  Francois Guizot

  Mean, Responsibility, Men

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• If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.

  Osman Baydemir

  Years, Names, Language

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• there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep one of these in his ranks, because its instinct is always toward revolt against authority. One such camel will sometimes break up the discipline of a whole train, for, owing to the mass mentality of the herd, even peaceful beasts are suddenly infected with the spirit of revolt and in a few minutes the whole caravan is in utter disorder.

  Mildred Cable

  Discipline, Leader, Peaceful

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• Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

  E. M. Delafield

  Children, Parent, Modern

  E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.2411, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Two, Mastery, Alive

  "A History of Sri Lanka". Book by K. M. De Silva, 1981.

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• If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

  Christina Stead

  Should Have, Revolution, Misery

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.199, Open Road Media

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• The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Opposites, Revolution, Oppression

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• I always imagined I would have a life very different from the one that was imagined for me, but I understood from a very early time that I would have to revolt in order to make that life. Now I am convinced that in any creativity there exists this element of revolt.

  Leonor Fini

  Creativity, Order, Different

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• A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the specialists even know what has happened, they rush to the media saying, 'There's no danger to the public.' They do this before they themselves know what has happened because they are terrified that the public might react violently, either by panic or by revolt.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Media, Nuclear, Submarines

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