revolt

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7281db1	Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.	innocence nostalgia rebellion revolt	Albert Camus
db30731	Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n.	inspirational lucifer rebellion revolt satan	John Milton
0ef6b25	And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. The great owners ignored the three cries of history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression. The money was spent for arms, for gas to protect the great holdings, and spies were sent to catch the murmuring of revolt so that it might be stamped out. The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.	john-steinbeck land owners revolt the-grapes-of-wrath	John Steinbeck
bc382e9	Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?	farm-animals humor revolt	J.D. Robb
849bb45	The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.	foundations human-rights justice-system justification nation nations revolt	Martin Luther King Jr.
abdf269	He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.	independence revolt	Mervyn Peake
e60634c	Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left -- sanity. But there was just enough in him of the blood of these fanatics to make even his protest for common sense a little too fierce to be sensible.	fanatics revolt sanity	G.K. Chesterton
96e36c3	As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.	government history ideologue oppression political-philosophy politics power progressives revolt revolution rule violence	Thomas Sowell
8990932	"There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical. Revolt in the abstract is - revolting. It's mere vomiting."	rebellious revolt sick	G.K. Chesterton
befb15d	the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality.	language revolt	Rebecca Solnit
c639cb6	Just then, Larry recalled a conversation he had with a friend in Ireland, about the situation in Nepal between the King and the Maoists. The friend was sided with the Maoists, which was more or less his political leanings in any case, and stated that at least they were trying to help the people. So Larry had remarked upon the rising death rate, and how the Maoists are just as brutal as the security forces, yet the friend simply shrugged and said you have to expect some collateral damage in a revolution. Oh how he hates that phrase, as that makes it sound like the people's lives are meant to be expendable, something that a person's life should never be. Of course, it is very easy to disregard people you have never met, and who are certainly not your friends or family members. After all, in the eyes of an outsider, who is in no danger whatsoever, the people caught up in the situation are nothing more than simply statistics.	maoists people-s-lives politics revolt	Andrew James Pritchard
02b9c61	Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.	liberty republic republicans revolt revolution war	Victor Hugo
ca3977e	For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.	dogmatism faith liberalism rationalism reason rebellion revolt	Alister E. McGrath
b2c3c68	For the present, it is easier for us to turn away. Our repulsion, you see, will not spur us to revolt until this plague moves much closer to home.	revolt	Mark Dunn

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Albert Camus

db30731

Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n.

inspirational lucifer rebellion revolt satan

John Milton

0ef6b25

And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. The great owners ignored the three cries of history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression. The money was spent for arms, for gas to protect the great holdings, and spies were sent to catch the murmuring of revolt so that it might be stamped out. The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on.

john-steinbeck land owners revolt the-grapes-of-wrath

John Steinbeck

bc382e9

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

farm-animals humor revolt

J.D. Robb

849bb45

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

foundations human-rights justice-system justification nation nations revolt

Martin Luther King Jr.

abdf269

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

independence revolt

Mervyn Peake

e60634c

Being surrounded with every conceivable kind of revolt from infancy, Gabriel had to revolt into something, so he revolted into the only thing left -- sanity. But there was just enough in him of the blood of these fanatics to make even his protest for common sense a little too fierce to be sensible.

fanatics revolt sanity

G.K. Chesterton

96e36c3

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

government history ideologue oppression political-philosophy politics power progressives revolt revolution rule violence

Thomas Sowell

8990932

"There again," said Syme irritably, "what is there poetical about being in revolt? You might as well say that it is poetical to be sea-sick. Being sick is a revolt. Both being sick and being rebellious may be the wholesome thing on certain desperate occasions; but I'm hanged if I can see why they are poetical. Revolt in the abstract is - revolting. It's mere vomiting."

rebellious revolt sick

G.K. Chesterton

befb15d

the revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality.

language revolt

Rebecca Solnit

c639cb6

Just then, Larry recalled a conversation he had with a friend in Ireland, about the situation in Nepal between the King and the Maoists. The friend was sided with the Maoists, which was more or less his political leanings in any case, and stated that at least they were trying to help the people. So Larry had remarked upon the rising death rate, and how the Maoists are just as brutal as the security forces, yet the friend simply shrugged and said you have to expect some collateral damage in a revolution. Oh how he hates that phrase, as that makes it sound like the people's lives are meant to be expendable, something that a person's life should never be. Of course, it is very easy to disregard people you have never met, and who are certainly not your friends or family members. After all, in the eyes of an outsider, who is in no danger whatsoever, the people caught up in the situation are nothing more than simply statistics.

maoists people-s-lives politics revolt

Andrew James Pritchard

02b9c61

Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.

liberty republic republicans revolt revolution war

Victor Hugo

ca3977e

For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.

dogmatism faith liberalism rationalism reason rebellion revolt

Alister E. McGrath

b2c3c68

For the present, it is easier for us to turn away. Our repulsion, you see, will not spur us to revolt until this plague moves much closer to home.

revolt

Mark Dunn