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«I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.»
Author: Anne Frank
(Author)
| About:
Politicians,
War
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«I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
| Keywords:
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«Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.»
Author: James Joyce
| Keywords:
actualities, actuality, apparently, artifice, artifices, fantastic, in a sense, revolt
«I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| Keywords:
activity, Chaos, disorder, disordered, disorders, especially, interested, mental, mental disorder, physical, revolt, revolted, revolts, Road to Freedom, starting, The Mental
«In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word ''experience'' have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.»
«It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.»
«I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road towards freedom - external freedom is a way to bring about internal freedom.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
activity, breaking, breaking away, break away, bring about, Chaos, disorder, disordered, disorders, especially, established, external, interested, internal, overthrowing, overthrows, revolt, revolted, revolts, Road to Freedom
«Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
capitalists, employed, quell, quelled, revolt, revolted, revolts, specialize, specialized, specializing, weapon
«Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
give rise, inexorable, invincible, revolt, submission
«I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le»
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