Revolt Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Revolt Quotes from famous persons: Toussaint Louverture, Suresh Gopi, Richard Phillips, Daniel Hannan, Albert Camus. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Revolt Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

Mastered by deadly passions, Rigaud has dug a gulf at your feet; he has laid snares which you could not avoid. He wished to have you as partisans in his revolt; and to succeed in his object, he has employed falsehood and seduction.

Toussaint Louverture

I feel nationalism is the basic essence of my statements or revolts.

Suresh Gopi

There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, ‘New Museum,’ to be an act of civil disobedience. It’s not so much about the New Museum on the Bowery, but the idea of challenging museums as projections of cultural authority. It’s painting as insurgency.

Richard Phillips

European pantywaists might keep voting for high-spending governments, but the U.S. was founded on a popular revolt against taxation.

Daniel Hannan

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

Albert Camus

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man‘s fate.

Andre Malraux

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

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

Chinua Achebe

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

Howard Mumford Jones

What the Shin Bet did in the Bus 300 affair is no less than declaring a revolt. They took the methods of manipulation, disinformation, threats, blackmail, etc. and instead of using them against the enemy, they used these tactics against their own side.

Ronen Bergman

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt.

Ann Demeulemeester

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

John C. Maxwell

A robot-arm in a factory doesn’t decide minute by minute whether to rivet or revolt – it just does the job is has literally been trained to do. It’s if and when we build a conscious robot that we may have to worry.

Daniel H. Wilson

By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.

Martin Filler

It would be wrong to see the re-making of Asia, much less India,as a revolt against the West. Asia has indeed been re-built on the ruins of colonialism, but not on the ruins of all that the West has come to represent.

Sanjaya Baru

I was 18 years old when I booked ‘Youth in Revolt,’ and it was my first movie, and I was starring in that movie – and even then, I didn’t feel like I had made it.

Portia Doubleday

Every military scenario that the Russians basically engage in their annual exercises, either on their western or eastern flank, always involved some kind of local revolt pulling in outside forces.

Fiona Hill

Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it – their shareholders would revolt at anything less.

Aaron Swartz

At Revolt, everyone‘s always open minded and always coming together for a solution.

Joe Budden

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.

Elliott Abrams

I lived by the motto, ‘If you don’t flirt, you die.’ And flirt I did. I flirted with all women, be they actresses, producers, or 80-year-old grandmothers. I even flirted with those who were out of bounds, like the wives of some of my best friends, which especially revolts me.

Richard Dreyfuss

Everything, everything in war is barbaric… But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

Ellen Key

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

Mikhail Bakunin

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

Karl Marx

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

William Hazlitt

I’ve been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.

Hugo Chavez

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

James Joyce

No matter how much control kids get over the media they watch, they are still utterly powerless when it comes to the manufacturing of brands. Even a consumer revolt merely reinforces one’s role as a consumer, not an autonomous or creative being.

Douglas Rushkoff

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

Ivo Andric

The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.

Octavio Paz

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

John Boyd Orr

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

Sigmund Freud

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

Herbert Hoover

Brexit wasn’t the European people’s first cry of revolt. In 2005, France and the Netherlands held referendums about the proposed European Union constitution. In both countries, opposition was massive, and other governments decided on the spot to halt the experiment for fear the contagion might spread.

Marine Le Pen

What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain‘s repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country.

John Linder

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

Simone Weil

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

Mignon McLaughlin

Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.

Chuck Todd

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

Our societies have experienced the magic that occurs when pluralism flourishes and the marginalized assume their proper powers. But loss stalks those victories, as millions revolt against change and supremacies resurface.

Anand Giridharadas

Revolt is my new – cable music network. It’s distributed through Time Warner and Comcast. And to put it simply, it is the ESPN of music.

Sean Combs

It is hard to imagine two more final endings to the ‘war on terror‘ than the popular revolts against the authoritarian regimes in the Middle East and the death of bin Laden.

Peter Bergen

I’m interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Jim Morrison

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul – the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.

Langston Hughes

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete.

Jean Tinguely

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