#revolt

There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry. ↗

— Ivo Andric

#even #property #revolts #rule #without

Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#conquest #defeat #either #empires #fallen

I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

#behaviour #camera #fact #i #love

As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest sensibilities of the soul. ↗

— Catharine Beecher

#common #common sense #contradict #dogmas #increased

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#activity #am #anything #disorder #freedom

Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt? ↗

— J.D. Robb

#farm-animals #humor #revolt #death

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#animal #crushes #dignity #even #foot

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game. ↗

— Rob Bishop

#game #just #political #revolting #spin

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#attachment #concerned #even #fiction #fiction writer

Influence, people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away from. ↗

— Marc Ribot

#also #away #fact #in fact #influence