#revolt

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

By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. ↗

— James Madison

#hatred #labor #luxury #other #pride

In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties. ↗

— Jose Maria Aznar

#born #countries #crises #dying #egypt

The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit. ↗

— The Invisible Committee

#french #revolt #revolution #anarchism

We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests, from our flesh by mass pornography, from our city by the police and from our friends by wage-labor. ↗

— The Invisible Committee

#french #revolt #revolution #anarchism

To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants in Western Europe might break out at any moment! ↗

— Herman Gorter

#assemblies #break #communist #europe #even

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#drive #every #heart #him #human

It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#better #better things #excites #people #revolt

I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#i #just #love #now #revolting

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