Ends Quote by Terry Eagleton Download Open image “Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.” — Terry Eagleton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ends History Marxism Politics Revolution Success Successful
The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
“Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.” — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible. — Michael McFaul Copy Share Image
It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“What we consume now is not objects or events, but our experience of them. Just as we never need to leave our cars, so… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The theatre can teach us some truth, but it is the truth of the illusory nature of our existence. It can alert us to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience. — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are. — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
it is the brevity of life which makes it tolerable; its experiences have value because they have an end. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad… — Tom Segev Copy Share Image
Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
