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“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.”

Mind May States Order Revolution Equal Superiors State Of Mind Inferiors Rebellious Revolt

Book:Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

“If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.”

Ifs Results Revolution Mass Instinct Obedience Revolt

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.”

Wind Revolution Police Folly Revolt Crossroads

Author:Albert Camus

“Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.”

Men Stills Government Revolution Mask Revolt Papa New Government

Book:Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man

“If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.”

Ifs Should Revolution Should Have Misery Contrary Revolt

Book:House of All Nations

Source: House of All Nations

“The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.”

Revolution Opposites Extremes Oppression Revolt

Author:Tennessee Celeste Claflin

“Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.”

Able Strong Revolution Hopeful Revolt

Author:Mason Cooley

“Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.”

Successful Revolution Perspective Revolt New Perspective

Author:Andre Malraux

“The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.”

Revolution Hopeless Revolt

Author:Peter Kropotkin

“To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution.”

Want Littles Certain Order Individual Understanding Born Differences Creative Revolution Wall Prison Reform Treatment Prisoner Revolt Mutiny Prison Walls Breaking Away

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“The bicycle is a vehicle of revolution. It can destroy the tyranny of the automobile as effectively as the printing press brought down despots of flesh and blood. The revolution will be spontaneous, the sum total of individual revolts like my own. It may have already begun.”

May Individual My Own Blood Revolution Presses Flesh Tyranny Vehicle Spontaneous Automobile Bicycle Revolt Printing Flesh And Blood Printing Press Despots Be Spontaneous

Author:Daniel Behrman

“The Africans were oftentimes allied with the antagonist of the Republic. Now, you may want to step back and ask yourself why that might be. It may lead you to a reconsideration of the origins of the nation now known as the United States of America. As opposed to seeing it in the same vein as the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution, you might see it in the same vein as the revolt against British rule in Rhodesia in 1965, and, if so, that might help to shed light on why conservatism is so deeply entrenched in this republic.”

“In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.”

Ifs May Two Whole Shows Party Failing Revolution Dresses Enterprise Requirements Flexible Casual Revolt Factions

Book:The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose

“A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.”

People Moving Social Movement Revolution Institutions Revolt Social Movements

Book:The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr

Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr