Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to disce...rn how becomingly they fit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who l...ed the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In considering the policy to be adopted for suppressing the insurrection, I have been anxious and careful that the inevitable conf...lict for this purpose shall not degenerate into a violent and remorseless revolutionary struggle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Insurrection:... insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses:... the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Insurrection--by means of guerrilla bands--is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from ...a foreign yoke ... It is invincible, indestructible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for t...he benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter.... To begin: there's Aries, or the Ram--lecherous do...g, he begets us; then, Taurus, or the Bull--he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini, or the Twins--that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo! comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue, Leo, a roaring Lion, lies in the path--he gives a few fierce bites and surly dabs with his paw; we escape, and hail Virgo, the virgin! that's our first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when pop comes Libra, or the Scales--happiness weighed and found wanting; and while we are very sad about that, Lord! how we suddenly jump, as Scorpio, or the Scorpion, stings us in rear; we are curing the wound, when whang come the arrows all round; Sagittarius, or the Archer, is amusing himself. As we pluck out the shafts, stand aside! here's the battering-ram, Capricornus, or the Goat; full tilt, he comes rushing, and headlong we are tossed; when Aquarius, or the Waterbearer, pours out his whole deluge and drowns us; and, to wind up, with Pisces, or the Fishes, we sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »