Contempt Quote by William Shakespeare

“This phenomenon, where the losers of a revolution try to demonstrate their support for, and approval of, the changes that have destroyed them, always…

— Julian Fellowes

“We know the cause which we are engaged in, and though a passionate fondness for it may make us grieve at every injury which…

— Thomas Paine

“There are two lines here: one holds a course for victory of revolution…the other doesn’t believe in revolution and counts merely on staying as…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible…

— Ernesto Guevara

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

— Tara Brach

“The Revolution has shown us that the advantages and opinion of society, which I thought everything, are really nothing, and always have been nothing.…

— James Tipton

“Without new visions, we don’t know what to build, only what to knock down. We not only end up confused, rudderless, and cynical, but…

— Robin D.G. Kelley

“A passionately tumultuous age wants to overthrow everything, subvert everything . A revolutionary but passionless and reflecting age changes the manifestation of power into…

— Kierkegaard, Soren

“My way is the way of silent revolution; revolution to raise the human consciousness through positive vibrations.”

— Amit Ray

“In the long run, the pessimism of reactionaries never proves to be justified, but neither does the optimism of revolutionaries. The expansion of human…

— René Girard

One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes…

— James F. Cooper