Insurrection Quotes
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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 indispensable of duties.
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More Insurrection Quotes
Sin is the insurrection and rebellion of the heart against God; it turns from Him, and turns against Him; it takes up arms against God.
richard alleine— P. 546. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Revolution is aimed at new arrangements; insurrection [Empörung] leads us no longer to let ourselves be arranged, but to arrange ourselves, and set no glittering hopes on “institutions.”
max stirner— S. Byington, trans. (1913), p. 421
Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
samuel johnson— September 23, 1777, p. 363A toast made by Johnson, as Boswell states, "when in company with some very grave men at Oxford".
It is obvious that a whiteguard insurrection is being prepared in Nizhni. You must strain every effort, appoint three men with dictatorial powers (yourself, Markin and one other), organise immediately mass terror, shoot and deport the hundreds of prostitutes who are making drunkards of the soldiers, former officers and the like.
Vladimir Lenin— Statement (9 August 1918) Collected Works, Vol. 35, p. 349
Revolution is not a dinner party, nor an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly, and modestly. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
Mao Tse-tung— As quoted in "Che Guevara: Revolutionary & Icon" (2006, p. 66) by Trisha Ziff.
Sin is the insurrection and rebellion of the heart against God; it turns from Him, and turns against Him; it takes up arms against God.
— Richard Alleine, p. 546. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
— Report on an investigation of the peasant movement in Hunan (March 1927)
