Quotes about Revolt
Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I issued a decree, and a search was conducted. It was discovered that this city has revolted against kings from ancient times, engaging in rebellion and sedition.
- Ezra 4:19
“Let us break Their chains and cast away Their cords.”
- Psalm 2:3
rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
- Isaiah 59:13
Beauty is a rebellion against time.
- Milan Kundera
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
- James Madison
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
Amplification is the vice of modern oratory. It is an insult to an assembly of reasonable men, disgusting and revolting instead ofpersuading. Speeches measured by the hour, die by the hour.
- Thomas Jefferson
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior.
- Aristotle
For resurrection faith means courage to revolt against the covenant with death (Isa. 28:15), it means hope for the victory of life which shall swallow up and conquer life-devouring death. ~ p.14
- Jurgen Moltmann
In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.
- Victor Hugo
Internal imperatives are all the more powerful and therefore all the more of an inducement to revolt.
- Milan Kundera