Revolt Quotes

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

  Karl Marx

  Machines, May, Weapons

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, International Pub

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• The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Long, Heaven, Atheism

  "Man, Society, and Freedom" by Mikhail Bakunin (1871), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, 1971.

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• 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

  Crush, Animal, Feet

  "On the International Workingmen's Association and Karl Marx" by Mikhail Bakunin (1872), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, www.marxists.org. 1971.

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• Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

  Aristotle

  Order, Mind, May

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

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• The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Revolution, Hopeless

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• 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

  Teamwork, Peace, Military

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• I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

  Jim Morrison

  Chaos, Starting, Disorder

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• Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Men, Lasts

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Rebel

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Epigrams”, p.56, BoD – Books on Demand

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Literature, Young

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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

  Simone Weil

  Peace, Giving, Doe

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• Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Rising Up, Evil, Agitation

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.53, Beacon Press

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• Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

  Herbert Read

  World, Violence, Violent

  Sir Herbert Edward Read, Herbert Read (1994). “A One-man Manifesto and Other Writings for Freedom Press”, Freedom Press (CA)

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• The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.

  Howard Zinn

  Memories, Taken, People

  Howard Zinn (2014). “A People's History of the United States”, p.395, Pan Macmillan

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• Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Papa, Revolution

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.46, City Lights Books

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• When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe.

  Frantz Fanon

  Culture, Breathe, Reason

  "The Wretched of the Earth". Book by Frantz Fanon, 1961.

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• The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

  William O. Douglas

  Religious, War, Political

  William O. Douglas (1954). “An Almanac of Liberty”

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• Give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt

  Juvenal

  Giving, Circus, Bread

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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, Uprising, People

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

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• To rebel or revolt against the status quo is in the very nature of an artist.

  Uta Hagen

  Artist, Rebel, Status Quo

  Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.18, John Wiley & Sons

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• The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Men, Revolution

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• Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?

  Nora Roberts

  Army, Animal, People

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• There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.

  Gelett Burgess

  Dream, Eye, Color

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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

  James Joyce

  Writing, Fantastic, Artifice

  James Joyce, Kevin Barry, Conor Deane (2000). “Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing”, p.59, Oxford University Press, USA

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• ... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love Is, Uprising, Mutiny

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.39, Vintage

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