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  • Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.

    Home   Uprising   Two  
  • Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein.

    The Principles of Psychology vol. 1, ch. 4 (1890)
  • Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

  • I'm in a wonderful position now because the rise of the whole Houston scene, the scene that we've been doing for years that people really didn't embrace a long time ago and now they're embracing it. It's good to be in the middle of that during the uprising.

    Years   Uprising   Long  
    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

    Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.169, Cambridge University Press
  • You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

    Uprising   Robots   Found  
  • Food Throwers: Begun usually by estranged couples, once this victual flinging starts, everyone will do it...Should your dinner party have become an out of control concussion match with opponents catapulting croutons and petits pois across the mahogany, don't fight it, go with it. And when you have the desire to quell the uprising approach the original perpetrator from behind. There, slowly crown her with the contents of the fresh fruit salad bowl. But be warned. Although this immobilizes and rivits everyone's attention it also gives them new ideas.

    Couple   Party   Fighting  
  • Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

  • Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

    Sang-Jin Han, Kim Dae-Jung, Richard Von Weizsaecker (2015). “Divided Nations and Transitional Justice: What Germany, Japan and South Korea Can Teach the World”, p.282, Routledge
  • Syria is on the back end of basically a decade-long drought. Over the last decade, farmers and herders have been ravaged in Syria forcing them to give up and move to urban areas. This has put a huge strain on urban resources, and it's surely one of the reasons for the uprising there.

  • Hayden shouts, "To the new Teen Uprising!

    Neal Shusterman (2013). “UnWholly”, p.390, Simon and Schuster
  • In the early years of the Uprising, we survived on one meal a day of horse meat and soup, but by the end we ate only dried peas, dogs, cats and birds.

    Dog   Horse   Cat  
  • Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

    Hero   Angel   Men  
    Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott (1969). “Complete Poems”, p.326, University of Illinois Press
  • I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

    "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.
  • The history of the universe and nature is being told to us by the stars, by the Earth, by the uprising and elevation of the mountains, by the animals, the woods and jungles, and by the rivers. Our task is to know how to listen and interpret the messages that are sent to us. The original peoples knew how to read every movement of the clouds, the meaning of the winds, and they knew when violent downpours were coming... We have forgotten all that.

    Stars   Animal   Rivers  
  • His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of mass poverty in political terms as an uprising, not for the sake of bread or wealth, but for the sake of freedom as well.

    Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA
  • Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

  • It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbelief enough to allow you to get lost in the story and believe what you're reading for a while.

    Believe   Book   Reading  
  • Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

    Uprising   Justice   Doe  
  • All the signs of incipient activism and uprising, from Tahrir square to Zuccotti Park to [the recent] shutdown of the Internet to protest web censorship. People are getting smart and getting connected.

    Source: www.wolverinefarm.org
  • Don't forget that the peace treaties with Egypt and later with Jordan have already survived several tests: two wars with Lebanon, two Palestinian uprisings, the attack on Gaza, the murder of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.

    War   Egypt   Uprising  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • Break up the printing presses and you break up rebellion.

  • To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising.

    RICHARD HOFSTADTER (1962). “The American Political Tradition And the Men Who Made It”
  • Whoever can surprise well must conquer.

  • There's no doubt about it that Mubarak has been indeed a partner with Israel, but there's also no doubt about something else. Conditions in Egypt were getting worse and worse, and it was almost just a matter of time before the popular uprising started.

    Israel   Egypt   Uprising  
    "Interview with Rep. Anthony Weiner". "The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 27, 2011.
  • For whoever conquers a free Town, and does not demolish it, commits a great Error, and may expect to be ruin 'd himself.

    War   Errors   Uprising  
    "History Of Florence And The Affairs Of Italy".
  • To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano.

    Years   Uprising   Rays  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • If you just look at the fact that a woman was central in twittering the Cairo revolution, and women were central to the Tunisian uprising. Women are at the center of everything right now and moving everything forward. And I do think in the next year or two, we are going to see such a woman spring, such a rising.

    "Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.
  • Balochistan, and to some extent Sindh too, has a general feeling that they are not part of the decision-making process in Pakistan and are ruled by a Punjabi dictatorship. There is a lot of exploitation of the rich resources [in Balochistan] which the locals are not gaining from. As long as this goes on, it is going to keep providing grounds for serious uprisings and insurgencies.

    Source: www.dawn.com
  • Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

    Freedom   Fall   Men  
    Forbes, Volume 78, 1956.
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