Revolt Quotes

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

Mikhail Bakunin
- Heaven
- Atheism
- Masters
Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

Albert Camus
- Revolution
- Police
- Revolt

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

Henrik Ibsen
- Happiness
- Spirit
- Revolt
Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.

Emil Cioran
- Human
- Stupor
- Perplex
Every woman who appears wrestles with the forces that would have her disappear. She struggles with the forces that would tell her story for her, or write her out of the story ... The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

Rebecca Solnit
- Women
- Ability
- Genealogy
To quell the women’s revolt, the British first sent police, then soldiers, and finally even the Boy Scouts.

Estelle Freedman
- Police
- Soldiers
- British
The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left--the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.

Farouk of Egypt
- Hearts
- Kings
- Revolt
Each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new.

Eloise Lownsbery

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
- Misery
- Revolt