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Revolution does not begin with a group. It begins from the heart.
They were drones, men costumed in independent thought who'd become slaves of party groupspeak. (p. 4)
The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart.
DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
We have been forced to watch, powerless, the rebels' brilliant tactic of helping our voters to move all their useless junk back into their apartments, that, gentlemen, could only be the brainchild of some machiavellian mastermind,
Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power.
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
It used to be that rebels were the type who wore leather jackets, rode motorcycles, smoked cigarettes and drank cheap domestic beer. Today's rebels are people who look at their world critically and observe the ensnaring patterns of the consumeristic lifestyle." (Life Hacks, p.50
Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.
I'm for the revolutionaries but against the revolution.
Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!
Those who reject both the goals and the means for the sake of their conscience, because they judge them to be of a wrong kind, are rebels. Their response is called rebellion.
I report to the revolutionaries infiltrated among the counterrevolutionary infiltrators.
Only from rebellious mind, revolution arises.
Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.
FARC, the Colombian rebels who've been funding their revolution against the state with kidnapping, extortion, and drug dealing.
No movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component' ... Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out
A people's insurrection and a people's revolution are not only natural but inevitable.
Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind.
Revolt, for you have nothing to lose but your chains and your [refugee] tents!
Revolution
Is the affair of logical lunatics.
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty
All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.
Revolt begins first in the human heart. But there comes a time when revolt spreads from heart to spirit, when a feeling becomes an idea, when impulse leads to concerted action. This is the moment of revolution.
The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history
They sit there shouting "Don't do it." Someone told them revolution looked like the Cosby Show. A slight tug with a good lesson. Revolution is a tough struggle between what was and what needs to be.
chaos on the streets themselves), and
I had come looking for a parade, for a military review of champions marching in ranks. Instead I was left with a brawl of ancestors, a herd of dissenters, sometimes marching together but just as often marching away from each other.
With rebellion, awareness is born
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
The saviors of the world, society's last hope.
There are accepted revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused revolutions, which are called riots.
Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.
Soldiers of capitalism are the fathers of dissent.
Every revolutionary ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic. In the purely historical universe that they
have chosen, rebellion and revolution end in the same dilemma: either police rule or insanity.
When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles
I don't know, it is a very quiet rebellion. [ ... ] I don't get angry. I sit quietly in the corner and say 'no'.
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
Some rebels are made, not born
The passions refuse to be organized on a basis of their own; hostile to personal freedom and one another, they rush precipitately into anarchy and mob rule.
The first duty of a revolutionist is to get away with it. The second duty is to eat breakfast. I ain't going.
Amongst civilized nations revolts are rarely excited, except by such persons as have nothing to lose by them;
Time and time over it is the ones who try a little too hard to be innovative rebels - and for the sheer glory of being considered innovative rebels - who then turn out not quite as innovative or as rebellious as they would like to think they are.
Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.
The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
To be a rebel is not to be a revolutionary. It is more often by a way of spinning one's wheels deeper in sand.
The cry of "Traitor!" was not a local voice only, but a bewildered people's explanation of the inexplicable. It was the eternal cry of conspiracy, of stab in the back.
As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.
It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.
People whose lives were determined for them by a group of politicians whose severing, dissecting and reattaching of their lands has turned their world into a monster that not even its creator can control.
There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.
The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.
A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics and consolidated by men of action.
They had been the rioters, the smashers of machines.
History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.
In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them.
Riot squads were ready to go into action. Although these young English boys (many of them civilians themselves little more than a year ago, and with only a very sketchy idea of the problems of administering Imperial
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt.
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.
fringe groups representing national minorities who could imagine that somehow the destruction of states provided opportunities.
[ ... ] a time when anarchists were truly fearsome - less because they were willing to put a brick through a Starbucks window than because they had figured out how to organize themselves in a functional, egalitarian, and sufficiently productive society.
Take away the people's bread and you get discontent; take away their money and you get anger, but take away their heroes and you get revolution.
Writing is fundamentally an act of insurrection.
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
It's a quiet revolution begun by ordinary people with the stuff of our daily lives.
Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution?
the killing of dangerous Rioters, by any private Persons, who cannot otherwise suppress them, or defend themselves from Them, inasmuch as every private Person seems to be authorised by the Law to arm himself for the Purposes aforesaid.
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!
Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas.
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
These men of Law and their confederates ... the caterpillars of this Kingdom, who with their uncontrolled exactions and extortions, eat up the free-born people of this Nation.
We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.
The Revolution of 1848 found all the Rougons on the lookout, frustrated by their bad luck, and ready to use any means necessary to advance their cause. They were a family of bandits lying in wait, ready to plunder and steal.
Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.
Revolt is the violence of an entire people; rebellion the unruliness of an individual or an uprising by a minority; both are spontaneous and blind. Revolution is both planned and spontaneous, a science and an art.
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
This was a revolution, whether the enemy knew it or not.
Caprice, independence and rebellion, which are opposed to the social order, are essential to the good health of an ethnic group. We shall measure the good health of this group by the number of its delinquents. Nothing is more immobilizing than the spirit of deference.
Under tyranny it is right to be a rebel!
I shit on all the revolutionary vanguards of this planet
Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.
In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
The junior hoodlums who roamed their streets were symptoms of a greater sickness; their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights' . . . and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.
...the ones who leaped to the forefront and shouted louder than the rest were all the failures and the aggrieved: commanders-in-chief without armies, ministers without ministries, journalists without journals, party chiefs without partisans.
The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.
Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
suppose, if you had to call it something, you could say that that was our civil war. It was too big a thing, too tied up in moral certainties to be called a mutiny, too small and ultimately futile to be called a revolution.
This was the story of our lives: minor insurrections, tiny victories, a brief chance to ridicule our oppressors, little floating vessels of hope amid a great sea of uncertainty, deprivation and fear.
Raw in the fields the rude militia swarms, Mouth without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defence.
We're attacking all accepted values. Authority, class differences, shared perceptions. We don't care what happens to our social structure -- revolutions are for suckers. Our target is people's collective consciousness. It's like throwing a cream pie in their face.
We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.
You get these insurgent movements of populism, left and right. An insurgent movement of populism took my political party over in the UK for example.