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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
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But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; theyare revolted and gone.

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— Jeremiah 5:23.

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I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada’s.

hans arp

— p. 406 (Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essaies, souvenirs, 1966)

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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.

Quentin Crisp

— Ch. 11 (The Naked Civil Servant (1968))

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Such a stupid act. Sometimes heroics revolted him; they seemed like an insult to the soldier who weighed the risks of the situation and made calm, cunning decisions based on experience and imagination, the sort of unshowy soldiering that didn’t win medals but wars.

iain banks

— Chapter VIII (p. 183)

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Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves.

william shakespeare

— William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act I, scene 2, line 198.

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The Turks had used genocide against the Greeks and Armenians but did not have enough time to finish them off completely. The Kurds revolted in 1925, demanding independence or autonomy.


— E. G. Vallianatos - The Mechanism of Catastrophe: The Turkish Pogrom of September 6-7, 1955, and the Destruction of the Greek Community of Istanbul (review) - Mediterranean Quarterly 17:1 (2006) 133-140

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I never revolted in vain, as a rebel or as a tyrant, but I rose seeking reformation for the nation of my grandfather Muhammad . I intend to enjoin good and forbid evil, to act according to the traditions of my grandfather, and my father ‘Al? ibn Ab? T?lib.


— Majlisi, Bih?rul Anw?r, vol.44, p.329

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