When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away. – English Proverb
Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. – Scottish Proverb
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his countrys ruin! – Joseph Addison
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. – Hannah Arendt
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. – Aristotle
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interests are at stake. – Aristotle
Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out. – Mariano Azuela
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
Revolution begins with the self, in the self. – Toni Cade Bambara
Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffections failure to substitute misrule for bad government. – Ambrose Bierce
Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. – Ambrose Bierce
So they united, and the Communist revolution took the chain from their legs and wound it around their necks. – Samuel Bonom
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood. – John Mason Brown
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. – Edmund Burke
I had such a wonderful feeling last night, walking beneath the dark sky while cannon boomed on my right and guns on my left the feeling that I could change the world only by being there. – Viorica Butnariu
The dead have been awakened — shall I sleep? The worlds at war with tyrants — shall I crouch? the harvests ripe — and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. – Albert Camus
What is a rebel? A man who says no. – Albert Camus
The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all — he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly. – Albert Camus
