“ Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws. ”
- Leon Trotsky- Copy
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“ Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ A little rebellion now and then… is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation. ”
- Abigail Adams- Copy
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“ Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. ”
- Grover Cleveland- Copy
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“ Tyranny over a man is not tyranny: it is rebellion, for man is royal. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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“ When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you find that more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. ”
- Carrie Snow- Copy
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“ This is not just a coast calamity. All the way up in the state, there's terrific damage. ”
- Haley Barbour- Copy
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“ Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest. ”
- Yasser Arafat- Copy
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“ Where things have not changed at all, there is the least likelihood of revolution. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Despair and misery are static factors. The dynamism of an uprising flows from hope and pride. Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Many of the world's troubles are not due just to Russia or communism. They would be with us in any event because we live in an era of revolution — the revolution of rising expectations. ”
- Adlai E. Stevenson- Copy
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“ Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice. ”
- Lee Harvey Oswald- Copy
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“ Every 150 years we have a revolution in Texas and this is it. ”
- Kinky Friedman- Copy
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“ Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised… ”
- Giuseppe Mazzini- Copy
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“ I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil. Slave revolts are justified, and if John Brown had really succeeded in arousing such revolts throughout the South, it would have been much preferable to losing 600,000 lives in the Civil War, where the makers of the war — unlike slave rebels — would not have as their first priority the plight of the black slaves, as shown by the betrayal of black interests after the war… ”
- Howard Zinn- Copy
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“ I have come to think of this humanist trend in psychology as a revolution in the truest, oldest sense of the word; the sense in which Galileo, Darwin, Einstein, Freud and Marx made revolutions, i.e. new ways of perceiving and thinking, new images of. ”
- Abraham Maslow- Copy
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“ This ship was a league from us, and some of the men would have taken her, and I would not consent to it, and this Moore said I always hindered them making their fortunes. Was that not the reason I struck him? Was there a mutiny on board? ”
- William Kidd- Copy
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“ Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty. ”
- Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot- Copy
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“ No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ I wouldn't have turned out the way I was if I didn't have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against. ”
- Madonna- Copy
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