Revolt
social movement that seeks to overthrow and destroy an established authority, as well as its accompanying laws
Revolt is a break with the ruling authority.
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Quotes
edit- Revolt is the certainty of a crushing fate, without the resignation that ought to accompany it.
- Albert Camus, in Albert Camus: From the Absurd to Revolt (2014), p. 10
- Revolt is not integrated into the harmonious development of the world; it does not wish to be integrated but rather to explode at the heart of the world and to break its continuity.
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity. Philosophical Library. 1948. ISBN 978-0-8065-0160-4. Part III: The Positive Aspect of Ambiguity
- The explosion of peaceful, mass revolt which has ended Soviet rule from Berlin to Bucharest — and will shortly end it also from Lvov to Vladivostok — was set off not by the eloquence of charismatic leaders, not by hatred of the oppressors, not by hope of gain, but by that tiny yet searing flame which is in us all, and which no Niagara of oppression, hunger or torture can ever extinguish.
- Bernard Levin, "From Spark to Furnace", The Times, December 26, 1989
