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  • I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation.

  • The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.

  • Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

    Rights   Sacred   Duty  
  • A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

    Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.13, Lulu.com
  • Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.

    War   Poetry   Drug  
    Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.122, Grove Press
  • Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.

    Country   War   Voice  
    Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.148, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Sin is the insurrection and rebellion of the heart against God; it turns from Him, and turns against Him; it takes up arms against God.

    Heart   Arms   Sin  
    Richard Alleine (1836). “Heaven opened; or, A brief and plain discovery of the riches of God's covenant of grace”, p.190
  • The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by rulers. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of the republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally ... enable the people to resist and triumph over them.

    Country   Strong   People  
    Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.746
  • Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2436, Delphi Classics
  • Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction with themselves.

    Writing   Men   Alarms  
    Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “Making Waves: Essays”, p.52, Macmillan
  • If Instagram had been available when I was working in Nicaragua in 1978, I'm sure I would have wanted to use it as a way of reporting directly from the streets during the insurrection.

    Nicaragua   Use   Way  
  • Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.

    Order   Slavery   Natural  
    Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.100, Penguin
  • An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.

  • I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

    Dream   Men   Suffering  
    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 63
  • I had many dolls. And you know how I played with them? By performing insurrections, assemblies, scenes of arrest. My dolls were almost never babies to be nursed but men and women who attacked barracks and ended up in prison.

    Baby   Men   Dolls  
    Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.
  • As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.

    Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.32, Black Irish Entertainment LLC
  • Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

    Joy   Faces   Fine  
    Rebecca Solnit (2010). “Hope In The Dark”, p.49, Canongate Books
  • It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

  • "From the reign of Nero to that of Antoninus Pius," Gibbon says again, "the Jews discovered a fierce impatience of the dominion of Rome which repeatedly broke out in the most furious massacres and insurrections. Humanity is shocked at the recital of the horrid cruelties which the Jews committed in the cities of Egypt, of Cyprus, and of Cyrene, where they dwelt in treacherous friendship with the unsuspecting natives...In Cyrene they massacred 220,000 Greeks; in Cyprus 240,000; in Egypt a very great multitude. Many of these unhappy victims were sawed asunder..."

    Cities   Egypt   Rome  
    Nesta Helen Webster (1921). “World Revolution: The Plot Against Civilization”
  • Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

    Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr
  • The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.

  • Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879

    Baby   Real   Differences  
    Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2171, GENERAL PRESS
  • For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.276, Vintage
  • Why suspend the habeas corpus in insurrections and rebellions? Examine the history of England. See how few of the cases of the suspension of the habeas corpus law have been worthy of that suspension. They have been either real treasons, wherein the parties might as well have been charged at once, or sham plots, where it was shameful they should ever have been suspected. Yet for the few cases wherein the suspension of the habeas corpus has done real good, that operation is now become habitual and the minds of the nation almost prepared to live under its constant suspension.

    Real   Party   Government  
    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.346
  • Insurrection is the last remedy, especially when the people have acquired the belief that peaceful means to secure the remedies for evils prove futile.

    Peace   Mean   Uprising  
  • Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

    Wise   Fit   Enough  
    Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.29, Cambridge University Press
  • ...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.68, Courier Corporation
  • Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.

    Art   Law   Revolutionary  
  • It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

    James Russell Lowell (1889). “Books and Libraries: Democracy, and Other Papers”
  • The task of all Christian scholarship—not just biblical studies—is to study reality as a manifestation of God’s glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it, and to make it serve the good of man. It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God’s glory is not scholarship but insurrection.

    John Piper (2013). “Think”, p.20, SPCK
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