Quotes with revolts

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• Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

  ― Lewis Mumford
  American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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• If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.

  ― Charles Horton Cooley
  American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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• It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

  ― James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

  ― William Hazlitt
  English writer (1778 - 1830)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• insurrections
• intelligence
• imagination
• individual
• dangerous
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