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• But there are times when men have serious thoughts, and it is at such times, when they begin to think, that they begin to doubt the truth of the Christian religion; and well they may, for it is too fanciful and too full of conjecture, inconsistency, improbability and irrationality, to afford consolation to the thoughtful man. His reason revolts against his creed. He sees that none of its articles are proved, or can be proved.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  Thomas Paine (1854). “The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...”, p.260

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• 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

  Illustration, Rope, Levels

  Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press

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• If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven's cause, they never allowed them to revolt against real evils or known violencess. It is from Heaven that the chains have come to fetter the minds of mortals.

  Baron d'Holbach

  Real, Evil, Heaven

  Paul Henri Thiry, baron d' Holbach (2012). “Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense”, p.197, tredition

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• [It is] useful to know the laws of nature - for that enables us to obey them. To act otherwise would be to rise in revolt against heaven.

  Adolf Hitler

  Law, Heaven, Would Be

  Adolf Hitler (1972). “Secret conversations, 1941-1944”, Octagon Press, Limited

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• Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by an organized proletariat for sustenance without relation to the product of its labor; a demand which threatens the very existence of PROFIT (on the necessary presumption of which Capitalism reposes). The second, and immediately graver danger is that of a revolt for the confiscation of the means of production.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Mean, Two

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• It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts.

  Martin Luther

  Order, People, Church

  "Luther". Book by Hartmann Grisar, vol. 4, p. 126, 1915.

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• So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?

  Robert Fisk

  Morning, Successful, Army

  "Robert Fisk: The shocking truth about 'shock and awe'" by Robert Fisk, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2003.

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• Since the last decades of the nineteenth century, revolt against the objectified world has determined the character of art and literature.

  Paul Tillich

  Art, Character, Literature

  Paul Tillich (1987). “On art and architecture”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment!

  Herman Gorter

  Europe, Judging, Might

  "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin" by Herman Gorter, www.marxists.org. 1920.

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• I am a believer and a conformist. Anyone can revolt; it is much more difficult to obey our inner promptings.

  Georges Rouault

  Belief, Difficult, Believer

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• Addiction is a revolt of the soul.

  Yehuda Berg

  Addiction, Soul

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• One can understand why Surrealism was not afraid to make for itself a tenet of total revolt, complete insubordination, of sabotage according to rule, and why it still expects nothing save from violence.

  Andre Breton

  Violence, Expect Nothing, Insubordination

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• Israel, and you who call yourself Israel, the Church that calls itself Israel, and the revolt that calls itself Israel, and every nation chosen to be a nation - none of these lands is yours, all of you are thieves of holiness, all of you at war with Mercy.

  Leonard Cohen

  War, Israel, Land

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.27, McClelland & Stewart

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• I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Eggs, Frightened, Jolly

  News summaries, December 31, 1963.

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• Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

  Georges Bernanos

  Daughter, Prayer, Despair

  Georges Bernanos (1938). “A diary of my times”

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• To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

  Henrik Ibsen

  World, Spirit, Possessed

  Henrik Ibsen (2012). “Ghosts”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

  Harold Rosenberg

  United States, Social, Structure

  Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.256, University of Chicago Press

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• The entire force of the Conciliar revolt comes from the fact that it has apparently been imposed by the authority of the Church. How many bishops, priests, religious, and laymen, would have swallowed the lies of the heretics if they had not believed themselves bound to do so by the voice of Christ's Vicar on earth? Questioning the authority of these men renders their revolution of doubtful authenticity.

  John Lane

  Religious, Powerful, Lying

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• Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into the culture, the voodoo, and that wonderful synchretization of Christian and African belief and symbology, it's like nothing the world has ever seen.

  Ben Fountain

  Christian, Successful, Unique

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• If Boris [Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Serious Things, Johnson, Bloody

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.

  Alberto Moravia

  Song, Bird, Theme

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

  Albert Camus

  Passion, Liberty, Three

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• 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.

  Puff Daddy

  Espn, Combs, Cables

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• If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.

  Albert Camus

  Struggle, Fate, Darkness

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.60, Vintage

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• He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

  Mervyn Peake

  Independence, Saws, Seeds

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.21, The Overlook Press

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