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• Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Animal, Fire

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.239, eKitap Projesi

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• The bicycle is a vehicle of revolution. It can destroy the tyranny of the automobile as effectively as the printing press brought down despots of flesh and blood. The revolution will be spontaneous, the sum total of individual revolts like my own. It may have already begun.

  Daniel Behrman

  Blood, May, Flesh

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• The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

  Joyce Cary

  Children, Teaching, Punishment

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• A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mind, Literature, Inquiring

  "Prejudices Second Series".

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• Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

  Georges Rouault

  Mean, Expression, Sincere

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• There are many possible interpretations of what it means to create dangerously, and Albert Camus, like the poet Osip Mandelstam, suggests that it is creating as a revolt against silence, creating when both the creation and the reception, the writing and the reading, are dangerous undertakings, disobedience to a directive.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Reading, Writing, Mean

  Edwidge Danticat (2011). “Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work”, p.11, Vintage

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• In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.

  Lewis Mumford

  Eye, Space, Generations

  Lewis Mumford (1964). “The High Way and the City”, New American Library of Canada

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• Were Kennedy not a millionaire, illiterate and ignorant, then he would obviously understand that you cannot revolt against the peasants.

  Fidel Castro

  Ignorant, Peasants, Millionaire

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• Without discontentment, without revolt, you can never attain harmony. It is a necessary stage, which must be gone through by everyone.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Gone, Harmony, Stage

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• A reasonable estimate of economic organisation must allow for the fact that, unless industry is to be paralysed by recurrent revolts on the part of outraged human nature, it must satisfy criteria which are not purely economic.

  R. H. Tawney

  Facts, Human Nature, Economic

  'Religion and the Rise of Capitalism' (1926)

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• The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Believe, Writing

  William Butler Yeats (1955). “Letters”

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• Truthfully speaking, women are dangerous, even those who aren't feminists, because there has always been a women's revolt. Only it has usually translated itself into solitary, individualist, disagreeable manifestations - the whole history of the taming of the shrew, the woman-shrew. They weren't shrews without cause.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Feminist, Taming, Shrews

  Source: www.iaphitalia.org

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• The devil has no power over us only as we permit him. The moment we revolt at anything which comes from God, the devil takes power.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Devil, Moments, Permit

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• Let's see in those indictments you can't level at Sweden, they never tried to ban the constitution or undermine the settlement that they wanted. Well you can't say that of Canada. Any indication of revolt on the part of Quebec was either bought off, with a good deal of corruption.

  Jane Jacobs

  Levels, Sweden, Canada

  Source: aqi.quebec

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• It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Truth, Men, Inquiring

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.104, Krishnamurti Foundation of America

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• Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death—and I refuse suicide.

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Passion, Three

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.64, Vintage

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• The student of Liberty must constantly endeavor to disassociate his imagination from sanguinary dramas of assassination and revolt.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Drama, Imagination, Liberty

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• Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him as our Savior.

  John Calvin

  Christ, Righteousness, Savior

  John Calvin, Henry Van Andel (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.19, Baker Books

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• Are modern children going to revolt against being modern, and if so, what form will reaction of modern parents take?

  E. M. Delafield

  Children, Parent, Modern

  E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.2411, Delphi Classics

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• As by the revolt of the first man, the image of God could be effaced from his mind and soul, so there is nothing strange in His shedding some rays of grace on the reprobate, and afterwards allowing these to be extinguished.

  John Calvin

  Men, Grace, Soul

  John Calvin (2014). “Obtaining the Grace of Christ: Institutes of The Christian Religion (Book 3)”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Law, Energy, Principles

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.264, Macmillan

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• From the beginning however, there was resistence to Portuguese mastery over Kotte. While Dharmapala was alive there were two major revolts, one led by Akaragama Appuhamy in 1594, and the other by Edirille rala in 1594-96.

  Dominicus Corea

  Two, Mastery, Alive

  "A History of Sri Lanka". Book by K. M. De Silva, 1981.

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• The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Opposites, Revolution, Oppression

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• If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

  Christina Stead

  Should Have, Revolution, Misery

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.199, Open Road Media

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• I always imagined I would have a life very different from the one that was imagined for me, but I understood from a very early time that I would have to revolt in order to make that life. Now I am convinced that in any creativity there exists this element of revolt.

  Leonor Fini

  Creativity, Order, Different

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