"Words are loaded pistols."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on Words
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"When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away."

Proverb, English on Rebellion
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"A riot is the language of the unheard."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Rebellion
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"What is a rebel? A man who says no."

Camus, Albert on Rebellion
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"To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt."

Bakunin, Mikhail on Rebellion
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"Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest."

Arafat, Yaser on Rebellion
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"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old."

Frost, Robert on Radicals
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"The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians."

Grimke, Angelina on Obedience
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"Those who know the least obey the best."

Farquhar, George on Obedience
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"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid on Hope
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"All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears."

West, Rebecca on Rebellion
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"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

Camus, Albert on Discontent
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"Three o clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on Time and Time Management
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"I hate victims who respect their executioners."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on Respectability
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"When the rich wage war it is the poor who die."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on Poverty and The Poor
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"Hell is other people."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on Hell
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"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on Existence
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"Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world."

Camus, Albert on Injustice
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"You can't create experience. You must undergo it."

Camus, Albert on Experience
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"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

Camus, Albert on Dissatisfaction
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"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished."

Barthes, Roland on Love
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"If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity."

Baudrillard, Jean on Love
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"Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love."

Bernard, St. on Love
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"To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."

Borges, Jorge Luis on Love
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"Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love."

Brown, Charlie on Love
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"Who so loves believes the impossible."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on Love
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"Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child."

Buddha on Love
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"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Love
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"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."

Ruskin, John on Ability
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"The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one."

Balzac, Honore De on Love
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"The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love."

Bailey, Pearl on Love
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"A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime."

Auden, W. H. on Love
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"Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering."

Landor, Walter Savage on Absence
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"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult."

Whitton, Charlotte on Ability
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"They are able because they think they are able."

Virgil on Ability
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"The king is the man who can."

Carlyle, Thomas on Ability
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"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."

Thoreau, Henry David on Ability
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"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

Ruskin, John on Ability
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"It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious."

Hubbard, Kin on Ability
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"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

Holmes, John Andrew on Ability
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