The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I… — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“He seemed to have established in his mind an affinity between the two great passions of his life – pale ale and… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
If the corrupt Jordanian monarchy were overthrown, it would be the ideal opportunity to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, because the West Bank… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
“...she was something more- a force, a stable, familiar force like something out of my past which kept me from whirling off… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady… — Alfred Doblin Copy Share Image
At 17, I lived in Nicaragua to show solidarity with the Sandinista socialist revolution. At 23 I raised money for Guatemalan women's… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“The first industrial revolution is flawed. It is not working. It is unsustainable. It is a mistake and we must move on… — Wayne Visser Copy Share Image
Society is just a structure with no soul. The soul is of the individual. One individual outweighs all societies. And, one individual's… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I thought that there could be no revolt against nature. I accepted the landscape without dreaming that, behind, there still prowled large… — Roger Vitrac Copy Share Image
The Fourth Industrial Revolution demands that CEOs take responsibility for the massive transformation of their businesses and for the extraordinary impact that… — Pierre Nanterme Copy Share Image
I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals,… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue,… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“How little imagination and courage we show in our hatreds. If we earn fifty cents an hour, we admire the rich and… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything… — Donald Tsang Copy Share Image
The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
Where did you find that one?" "I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess." "They must be able to… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Marrying Cal, the scion of a family whose wealth dated to the Industrial Revolution and had multiplied through every turn of the… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of… — Young-Ha Kim Copy Share Image
It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The information superhighway is a revolution that in years to come will transcend newspapers, radio, and television as an information source. Therefore,… — J. James Exon Copy Share Image
In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
“. . . The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“Carl Degler says (Out of Our Past): “No new social class came to power through the door of the American revolution. The… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of… — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
One thing that has happened is a revolution in digital consumer recording, and overall, that's a great thing for art, but parallel… — John Vanderslice Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical.… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“The essence and value of the law lies in its stability and durability (...), in its “relative eternity.” Only then does the… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
