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«Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.»
Author: Francesco Guicciardini
(Historian, Statesman)
| Keywords:
charge, complaints, in charge, no Time, remove, revolutions, The Faces
«We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.»
Author: George Farquhar
(Dramatist, Poet)
| Keywords:
accidents, fortunes, intrinsic value, revolutions
«War means an ugly mob-madness, crucifying the truth tellers, choking the artists, sidetracking reforms, revolutions, and the working of social forces»
Author: John Reed
(Poet)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
choking, crucifying, mob, reforms, revolutions, Social reform, tellers
«Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible will make violent revolutions inevitable»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
After the Revolution, inevitable, peaceful, peaceful revolution, revolutions, violent
«The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| About:
Revolution,
Science
| Keywords:
arrogance, centrality, convictions, cosmos, dethronement, feature, include, pedestal, pedestals, previous, revolutions, scientific
«We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.»
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
(Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
fatigues, fireside, firesides, migration, migrations, revolutions, The Brown, undergo
«Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
acquire, acquisition, acquisitions, battles, due, revolutions, slaves, solely, undertaken, wars
«The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and one's own biography remain untouched. New truth is always a go-between, a smoother-over of transitions. It marries old opinion to new fact so as ever to show a minimum of jolt, a maximum of continuity.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
biography, continuity, Go Between, jolt, jolted, marries, maximum, minimum, revolutions, smoother, time and space, transitions, untouched
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