To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.
I've been in revolt for years against ignominy, against injustice, against inequality, against immorality, against the exploitation of human beings.
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.
When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.
Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.
Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.