Uprising Quotes - Page 4

• When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service. Loyalty of the usual sort-perhaps, but if it is true loyalty and service you seek, then you must abandon this fief and plan a grass-roots uprising.

  Yoshida Shoin

  Loyalty, Patriotic, Roots

  "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. IX, 1938.

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• Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Our World, Long, Society

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• Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.

  Terry Eagleton

  Hangover, Levels, Way

  The Guardian, October 27, 1992.

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• The history of the universe and nature is being told to us by the stars, by the Earth, by the uprising and elevation of the mountains, by the animals, the woods and jungles, and by the rivers. Our task is to know how to listen and interpret the messages that are sent to us. The original peoples knew how to read every movement of the clouds, the meaning of the winds, and they knew when violent downpours were coming... We have forgotten all that.

  Leonardo Boff

  Stars, Animal, Rivers

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• I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to achieve? In the end, they're too weak to end the Israeli occupation.

  Tom Segev

  Mistake, Thinking, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing minorities and put themselves in their place. Then, also, is produced the phenomenon of agglomeration, of "the full." For that reason, as Spengler has very well observed, it was necessary, just as in our day, to construct enormous buildings. The epoch of the masses is the epoch of the colossal.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Minorities, Empires, Building

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution.

  Adolf Hitler

  Easter, People, Political

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• If you just look at the fact that a woman was central in twittering the Cairo revolution, and women were central to the Tunisian uprising. Women are at the center of everything right now and moving everything forward. And I do think in the next year or two, we are going to see such a woman spring, such a rising.

  Eve Ensler

  Spring, Moving, Thinking

  "Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind of workers' uprising; the true enigma is how this project of emancipation went so wrong.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Tragedy, Kind, Projects

  Interview with Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. July 2004.

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• It is a democratic uprising. I'd say a democratic revolution against imperialism and against capitalism. So the agreements between us, more than that, any cooperation means unconditional credit, while the US and some capitalist countries want to help us under conditions, under blackmail.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Mean, Agreement

  Source: bigthink.com

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• 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

  War, Egypt, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Helen Rosevere was a British medical missionary in the Congo years ago during an uprising. Her faith was strong and her trust was confident, yet she was raped and assaulted and treated brutally. Commenting later, she said, "I must ask myself a question as if it came directly from the Lord, 'Can you thank Me for trusting you with this experience even if I never tell you why?'" What a profound thought. God has trusted each of us with our own set of unfair circumstances and unexplained experiences to deal with. Can we still trust in Him even if He never tells us why?

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Strong, Years, Profound

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• I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.

  Hugh Masekela

  Culture, Way, March

  "Hugh Masekela: 'I don't think I have the power to forgive'". Interview with David Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2012.

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• Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.

  Octavio Paz

  Art, People, Minorities

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.141, Arcade Publishing

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• 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

  Jesus, Children, Book

  ""Poverty Is a Greater Concern for Most than a Democratic Constitution"". Interview with Martin Doerry, www.spiegel.de. August 29, 2005.

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• The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, People, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.375, Wildside Press LLC

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• The air's warm with hopeful hints of spring in it. Spring would be a good time for an uprising, I think. Everyone feels less vulnerable once winter passes.

  Suzanne Collins

  Spring, Winter, Thinking

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.167, Scholastic Inc.

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• ‎What is to prevent, say, an uprising?

  Suzanne Collins

  Suzanne Collins (2013). “The Hunger Games Complete Trilogy”, p.280, Scholastic UK

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• The rules of the Hunger Games are simple. In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The twenty-four tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Over a period of several weeks, the competitors must fight to the death. The last tribute standing wins.

  Suzanne Collins

  Girl, Fighting, Winning

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising!

  Neal Shusterman

  Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.390, Simon and Schuster

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• Okay, Libya. President Obama supported the uprising, correct?... No, that's a different one. I've got to go back, got all this stuff twirling around in my head.

  Herman Cain

  President, Different, Stuff

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

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  War, Gun Rights, Unnecessary

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• Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Motivational, Success, Determination

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• Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

  Saul Bellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Goal

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• He lives most life whoever breathes most air.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Reality, Air

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.88

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