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• To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up bombing ordinary city folk. For the US to be bombing Sunni towns all these years later on behalf of Mr. al-Maliki would be to invite terrorism against the US.

  Juan Cole

  Military, Iraq, Government

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• He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any biblical injunction that the man should remain ever the doctor and the woman the nurse, and yet he felt as if a blasphemy had been committed.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Biblical, Sarcasm

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.6722, Delphi Classics

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• The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.

  John Henry Cox

  Winning, Justice, Diversity

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• The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

  Malcolm X

  Justice, Diversity, Asking

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.374, Ballantine Books

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• Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere revolt against the present social system, it is a cheap moral swagger. In former times it was used as fire insurance by the rich, but now that the fear of Hell has gone along with the rest of revealed religion, it is used either to gild mean lives with nobility or as a political instrument.

  Rebecca West

  Mean, Fire, Justice

  Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, New York : Viking Press

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

  James Russell Lowell

  Ignorance, Intelligent, Fool

  James Russell Lowell (1889). “Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers”

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• If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Pain, Character, Hypocrite

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.350, Transaction Publishers

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• The vanity of man revolts from the serene indifference of the cat.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Men, Vanity

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.114, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Sensitivity, Masculinity

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.82, Vintage

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• Popular revolt against a ruthless, experienced modern dictatorship, which enjoys a monopoly over weapons and communications, ... is simply not a possibility in the modern age.

  George F. Kennan

  Communication, America, Age

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• The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.

  Danny Glover

  Native American, Gun, Land

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• A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

  William Powell

  Government, Revolution

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Two: "Electronics, Sabotage, and Surveillance", 1971.

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• Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

  Victor Hugo

  Spirit, Moral, Rebellion

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition.

  Ralph Adams Cram

  Character, Race, Evil

  RALPH ADAMS CRAM (1922). “TOWARDS THE GREAT PEACE”

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• One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

  Albert Camus

  Philosophical, Men, Obscurity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.54, Vintage

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• Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results. In Germany its defects are evident enough; people are made to travel in carriages which our main lines would not think of using, and with a lack of conveniences which with us would provoke a revolt; but the most amazing thing about this administration in Russia is to see how, after all this vast expenditure, the whole atmosphere of the country seems to paralyze energy.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Country, Thinking, Russia

  ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1905). “AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ANDREW DICKSON WHITE volume 1”

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• If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Revolution, Instinct, Obedience

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• I can look back . . . at two distinct periods of opinion whose foundations I have successively come to distrust - a period before 1919 or so, when the weight of classic authority unduly influenced me, and another period from 1919 to about 1925, when I placed too high a value on the elements of revolt, florid colour, and emotional extravagance or intensity.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Emotional, Two, Foundation

  Letter to August Derleth (1929), in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, (p. 307), 1996.

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• 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

  Men, Land, Battle

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• I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and capitalists alone, are guilty of war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!

  Anne Frank

  War, Believe, Men

  Anne Frank, Rijksinstituut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (Netherlands) (1989). “The diary of Anne Frank: the critical edition”, Viking Pr

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• 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

  People, Leader, Action

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• All art is a revolt against man's fate.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, Fate, Destiny

  Les Voix du Silence pt. 4, ch. 7 (1951)

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• O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Men, Bait

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.77, Palgrave Macmillan

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• My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Thinking, Religion, Atheism

  Thomas Jefferson, H. A. Washington (2011). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private”, p.28, Cambridge University Press

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• The Yuppies are not defectors from revolt, they are a new race, assured, amnestied, exculpated, moving with ease in the world of performance, mentally indifferent to any objective other than that of change and advertising.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Moving, Race, Yuppies

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.110, Verso

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