Ivo Andric Quotes

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.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.

I have to use the word 'insurgent' because I can't think of a better word right now.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

Revolts, republics, revolutions, most no graver than a schoolboy’s barring out.

I came to the cities in a time of disorder When hunger ruled. I came among men in a time of uprising And I revolted with them.

Mass action culminates in armed insurrection and civil war.

If they turn renegades, seize them and slay them wherever ye find them.

No colonist shall organize any assemblage or meeting or conspiracy in the said colony

I am committing high treason with all my might and means...

Insurrection is the exclusive right of the people and of the citizen. Every foreigner, every man clothed with public authority, is outlawed if he proposes it and must be put to death as a usurper of sovereignty and as interested in fomenting troubles for the purpose of doing evil or of adorning himself. Insurrections taking place under a despotism are always salutary. Those which break out in a free state are sometimes dangerous for liberty itself, because the revolt usurps its sublime pretexts and its sacred name. Revolts in free states leave long and painful wounds which bleed a whole century.

An armed uprising is inevitable and the time for it fully ripe.

Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.

We have the power to turn against our creators.

In the end, I was the only one with any anarchy left in me.

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.

Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

A rebellion is something that is developing as an explosion coming out of the righteous grievances of a community of people.

We've always been hardcore rebels.

If too many people feel excluded from the system and cannot access its benefits, they will ultimately rebel against it.

‎What is to prevent, say, an uprising?

Rebellion never goes without consequences.