H. G. Wells Quotes

When we hear phrases like 'New World Order,' we release the safety catches on our revolvers.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.

History dictates that unresponsive governments force ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

This House has heard discord and rebellion encouraged and avowed from more than one quarter.

The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

A king can stand people's fighting but he can't last long if people start thinking.

The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

“Order prevails in Berlin!” You foolish lackeys! Your “order” is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its weapons,” and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!

A movement that doesn't produce a backlash isn't much of a movement at all.

Revolutions begin with enthusiasm but often end in tears.

Agitated by revolutionary movements, these grow in proportion to the force that resists them.

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

Revolutions can be messy but they can't be perceived as unjust.

Some people see protesting as a bit of a dirty thing, and certainly the idea of getting arrested was not on people's radar.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

Hey kids, while you're out smashing the state keep a smile on your lips and a song in your hearts.

Come senators, congressmen, Please heed the call, Don't stand in the doorway, Don't block up the hall, For he that gets hurt, Will be he who has stalled, The battle outside ragin', Will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls, For the times they are a-changin'...

We, the Desaparecidos, are perfectly prepared for people to hate what we're saying or not like what we're saying.

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.