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  • First impressions of mediaeval life are usually coloured by the courtly romances of Malory and his later refiners. Chaucer brings us down to reality, but his people belong to a prosperous middle-class world, on holiday and in holiday mood. Piers Plowman stands alone as a revelation of the ignorance and misery of the lower classes, whose multiplied grievances came to a head in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381.

  • How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?

    Travel   Home   Grass  
  • There is no rule without revolts and conspiracies, even as there is no property without work and worry.

  • In the United States, revolts tends to be directed against specific situations, rarely against the social structure as a whole.

    Harold Rosenberg (1983). “Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations”, p.256, University of Chicago Press
  • Oh you Muslims! You have slept for a long time, long enough for the tyrants to take control over you. You accepted to live as slaves and submitted to tyrants. Now the time has come to revolt and destroy the shackle of slavery.

    Tyrants   Long   Over You  
  • There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and imaginations but which under the whip of the forces of order and strategies to buy-off sectors of the revolt becomes fragmented.

    "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.
  • It is the Jews who originated biblical exegesis (a critical analysis of the Bible), just as they were the first to criticize the forms and doctrines of Christianity...Truly has Darmesteter written: 'The Jew was the apostle of unbelief, and every revolt of mind originated with him.'

  • That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity.

  • You just have to get out of the bubble and you have to quit listening to yourself. People are really hurt. The irony of this is, though, had Ms.[Hillary] Clinton listened to her husband instead of her boss, she might could have stopped this Rust Belt redneck revolt.

    Hurt   Husband   Redneck  
    Source: abcnews.go.com
  • there are camels which have the quality which in humans is called the revolutionary spirit, and the caravan leader fears to keep one of these in his ranks, because its instinct is always toward revolt against authority. One such camel will sometimes break up the discipline of a whole train, for, owing to the mass mentality of the herd, even peaceful beasts are suddenly infected with the spirit of revolt and in a few minutes the whole caravan is in utter disorder.

  • The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.

    Blood   Lust   Excess  
    William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1547, BookCaps Study Guides
  • Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

    James Joyce, Kevin Barry, Conor Deane (2000). “Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing”, p.59, Oxford University Press, USA
  • One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place of mental processes and revolts, crimes, despairs pass off in a dribble of vague words and rubber stamp phrases without leaving a scratch on the mind of the driven instalment-paying, subway-packing mass.

    Memories   Leaving   Mind  
    John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”
  • Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of contemporary fiction. It habitually exhibits, not a man of delicate organization in revolt against the inexplicable tragedy of existence, but a man of low sensibilities and elemental desires yielding himself gladly to his environment, and so achieving what, under a third-rate civilization, passes for success. To get on: this is the aim. To weigh and reflect, to doubt and rebel: this is the thing to be avoided.

    H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd
  • Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

    Respect   Heart   Pride  
  • 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.

    Party   Two   Dresses  
    Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated
  • Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of his work is thereby paralysed, and the impulses of negation and revolt, not to speak of those of social transformation, are increasingly perceived as vain and trivial in the face of the model itself.

  • The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

    Men   Revolution   Revolt  
  • I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this.

    America   Car   Looks  
    "Alec Issigonis Dies; Auto Designer, 81, Introduced the Mini" by Constance L. Hays, www.nytimes.com. 1988.
  • It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth, God, or love.

    Truth   Men   Inquiring  
    Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “Individual & Society: A Study Book of the Teachings of J. Krishnamurti”, p.104, Krishnamurti Foundation of America
  • If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

    Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.350, Transaction Publishers
  • When obedience is so impious, revolt is a necessity.

  • The entire force of the Conciliar revolt comes from the fact that it has apparently been imposed by the authority of the Church. How many bishops, priests, religious, and laymen, would have swallowed the lies of the heretics if they had not believed themselves bound to do so by the voice of Christ's Vicar on earth? Questioning the authority of these men renders their revolution of doubtful authenticity.

  • On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

    Ellen Willis (2011). “Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music”, p.221, U of Minnesota Press
  • The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

    "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.
  • Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.105, Vintage
  • Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.

    Men   Animal   Fire  
    Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.239, eKitap Projesi
  • The revolt against one's environment is usually 'shame' of one's environment.

  • The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

    Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.277, Vintage
  • Theology created the fiction of Satan which represents the revolt if an infinite being against the existence of an absolute infinity, against God.

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