#revolt

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

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Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#armed #army #camp #casual #citizens

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again. ↗

— Jerome Lawrence

#back #because #bored #boredom #broadway

What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country. ↗

— John Linder

#became #began #beginnings #britain #call

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#against #fate #man #revolt

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#full #generally #often #pretty #revolt

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#activity #anything #appears #chaos #disorder

The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#me #revolts #shameful

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

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#atomic bomb #bomb #children #indiscriminate #killing