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Revolt Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love.

Gary Miles Chassman, Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service, Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (2002). “In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr”

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

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

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.74, Penguin

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

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

The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are the new beginnings.

"Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.