Quotes of Revolt - somelinesforyou

“ Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. ”

- Aristotle

“ Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ A little rebellion now and then… is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ”

- Anthony J. D’Angelo

“ So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks. ”

- Samuel Bonom

“ George Bush taking credit for the Berlin Wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sunrise. ”

- Al Gore

“ You cannot win against an insurgency that springs from the population. There's never been an insurgency that doesn't prevail against a mighty power. ”

- Jack Valenti

“ Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us. ”

- Howard M. Jones

“ I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity. ”

- Robert Baldwin

“ Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model. ”

- Charles F. Kettering

“ When one is pretending the entire body revolts. ”

- Anais Nin

“ Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes. ”

- Romano Prodi

“ Every 150 years we have a revolution in Texas and this is it. ”

- Kinky Friedman

“ Art is a revolt against fate. ”

- Andre Malraux

“ This is not just a coast calamity. All the way up in the state, there's terrific damage. ”

- Haley Barbour

“ When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. ”

- Bible

“ The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty. ”

- Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history. ”

- Larry Summers

“ Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs. ”

- John H. Vincent

“ It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ Let us go in; the fog is rising. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest. ”

- Yasser Arafat
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