Benefits Quote by C. S. Lewis

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his…

— Saul Alinsky

He sees such a desperate rapaciousness prevail; such a disregard to equity, such contempt of order, such stupid blindness to future consequences, as must…

— David Hume

The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His…

— Sergey Nechayev

“Apocalypse is a part of the modern Absurd. This is testimony to its vitality, a vitality dependent upon its truth to the set of…

— Frank Kermode

“It needs to be borne in mind that there are always, and inevitably, two sides to the revolutionary coin. The first is negative and…

— David Horowitz

“It’s as though not even that most basic level of imaginative thought had been admitted into consciousness to cause the slightest disturbance. A century…

— Philip Roth

And all this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set…

— Bertrand Russell

In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will…

— Victor Hugo

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

— Shirley Williams

A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like…

— Young-Ha Kim

“In this place, upwards of 400,000 British men were going to be killed. They'd lost 20,000 just the other day. He sucked a grim…

— Paul Cornell