Uprising famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.
-- Al Stewart -
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
-- Andrea Dworkin -
Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.
-- Andrew Goodman -
Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.
-- Angela Merkel -
There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.
-- Anthony Weiner -
Even the most subjected person has moments of rage and resentment so intense that they respond, they act against. There is an inner uprising that leads to rebellion, however short- lived. It may be only momentary but it takes place. That space within oneself where resistance is possible remains.
-- Bell Hooks -
Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.
-- Bo Derek -
Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist.
-- Bodhidharma -
We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.
-- Calamity Jane -
If notwithstanding, a Rebellion of the same Kind now afflicts this Country, we should not infer that this Institution is useless, or should be laid aside; but just the Reverse.
-- Charles Inglis -
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
-- Chinua Achebe -
Whoever invented double clicking should be shot in the head! Twice!
-- Craig Reucassel -
Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.
-- Daniel H. Wilson -
You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.
-- Daniel H. Wilson -
Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country.
-- Daniel Ortega -
I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.
-- David Byrne -
Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.
-- Dudley Nichols -
The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.
-- Edwin Louis Cole -
Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!
-- Ferdinand Lassalle -
Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.
-- Franz Grillparzer -
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
-- Frederick Douglass -
Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.
-- Friedrich Durrenmatt -
The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
-- Gail Collins -
Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.
-- George Henry Lewes -
All of the penciling was consistently done by one person and the inking was whoever could finish on time.
-- Gil Kane -
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
-- H. L. Mencken -
Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.
-- Henry Knox -
Okay, Libya. President Obama supported the uprising, correct?... No, that's a different one. I've got to go back, got all this stuff twirling around in my head.
-- Herman Cain -
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.
-- Huey Newton -
I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.
-- Hugh Masekela -
The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
-- Iris Chang -
Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.
-- James Branch Cabell -
Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.
-- Jennifer Capriati -
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
-- Jim Morrison -
One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution against revolutions, the uprising of all peaceable individuals, who will become soldiers for once so that neither they nor anyone else will ever have to be a soldier again.
-- Jose Marti -
This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
-- Joseph Brodsky -
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
-- Karl Barth -
An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.
-- Keith Olbermann -
Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones.
-- Kerry King -
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
-- Khalil Gibran -
For a group of people who claimed to be concerned for her safety, they did seem to have developed rather a habit of encouraging uprisings against monarchs.
-- Kristin Cashore -
That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place.
-- Lester Bangs -
I wrote two poems about the '81 uprisings: 'Di Great Insohreckshan' and 'Mekin Histri.' I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.
-- Linton Kwesi Johnson -
We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.
-- Lisa Bonet -
Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!
-- Marianne Faithfull -
Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
-- Marjory Stoneman Douglas -
Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.
-- Mary Astell -
The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
-- Mary Oliver -
If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the peoples desperate need for change.
-- Mohamed ElBaradei -
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.
-- Octavio Paz -
I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion.
-- Phil Donahue -
So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.
-- Phillip E. Johnson -
To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.
-- Richard Hofstadter -
I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.
-- Scott Stapp -
The uprising in Egypt was initiated by the young generation. The uprising achieved two things. One is it made the lives of dictators impossible. Today, if you are looking for a safe job, don't become a dictator.
-- Shimon Peres -
The present Arab uprising didn't stem from Israel. The old guard is trying to keep down the young chickens. The old guard is better organized. They may win elections, but unless they have a solution to poverty, to corruption, to oppression, they will not last. I am with the young people.
-- Shimon Peres -
Whoever has an original thing to say, it is sort of a threat to the status quo.
-- Steve Lacy -
Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of '68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.
-- Terry Eagleton -
To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .
-- Tony Shalhoub -
The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising.
-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi -
The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.
-- Toyotomi Hideyoshi -
The technique that only uses explosion or expansion forces is lethal and hostile to the nature. This kind of technique must miss the natural counter force or the organic synthesis which is a negative form of quality - The Organic Vacuum - that reunites the polar and the increasing to the favour of the uprising of a new life form.
-- Viktor Schauberger -
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
-- Voltaire -
One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -
Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
-- Yasser Arafat -
When I consider the state of things in our fief, I find that those who hold positions and receive official stipends are incapable of the utmost in loyalty and patriotic service. Loyalty of the usual sort-perhaps, but if it is true loyalty and service you seek, then you must abandon this fief and plan a grass-roots uprising.
-- Yoshida Shoin -
Ah, if only a few more massacres would suffice To sort it all out once and for all With so many uprisings and so many fallen heads In Paradise we should all be by now! But the wished-for Golden Age is endlessly postponed The gods remain so thirsty, they are insatiable Thus it is death, an endless cycle of death
-- Georges Brassens -
Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.
-- Margaret Lee Runbeck -
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.
-- Susan B. Anthony -
I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliban.
-- Ahmed Rashid -
The ingredients for another Palestinian uprising are always there because as long as there is so much violence it is bound to explode. How, I cannot tell. But people will not accept it forever.
-- Amira Hass -
Don't forget that the peace treaties with Egypt and later with Jordan have already survived several tests: two wars with Lebanon, two Palestinian uprisings, the attack on Gaza, the murder of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
-- Tom Segev -
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad for both sides. But I don't think the forces are there (that could carry out) an uprising against the leadership. The people that could initiate it are in Israeli prisons. And what could they hope to achieve? In the end, they're too weak to end the Israeli occupation.
-- Tom Segev -
Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.
-- Vijay Prashad -
I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.
-- Vijay Prashad -
Over the last two or so decades, there's been an increase in thinking among the Left, liberals, intellectuals in the direction of so-called spontaneity. In other words that uprisings happen spontaneously, people are frustrated, angry, then they spontaneously rise up. And what they don't require is preparation, or what we used to call leadership.
-- Vijay Prashad -
There are several studies done of peasant uprisings where the first chapter might be 'conditions in that area' and so the conditions are bad, and then the second chapter is a kind of conjectural event, somebody's shot and then there's an uprising. But there's no consideration, no chapter on preparation.
-- Vijay Prashad -
I wrote two poems about the 81 uprisings: Di Great Insohreckshan and Mekin Histri. I wrote those two poems from the perspective of those who had taken part in the Brixton riots. The tone of the poem is celebratory because I wanted to capture the mood of exhilaration felt by black people at the time.
-- Linton Kwesi Johnson
