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“I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.”

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Martin Cruz Smith, born on November 3, 1942, is an American novelist renowned for his hard-boiled detective novels, particularly his series featuring the Russian detective Arkady Renko. more

“The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.”

Source: A Personal Record

“More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.”

Hands Found Revolution Mass Rebellious Bureaucrats Bewildered

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.”

Today Taken Revolution Consequence Granted Dull Rebellious Taken For Granted Taking Things For Granted Took For Granted

Book:Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose

Source: Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose

“The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.”

Knows Men World Real Action Wish Know How Effects Fronts Revolution Offers Appetite Rebellious Insatiable

Book:The Passionate State of Mind

Source: The Passionate State of Mind

“Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings remain in us. They rule our thinking, our conduct, our attitude to others. The situation is a demonic paradox: we have toppled the system but we still carry its genes.”

Thinking May Stills Philosophy Values Attitude Situation Teaching Revolution Structure Cease Paradox Genes Demonic

Author:Ryszard Kapuscinski

“All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.”

Men Politics Economy Successful Violence Doors Revolution Rebellious Rotten Vacuums Kicking

Book:The Essential Galbraith

Source: The Essential Galbraith

“The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.”

Faces Danger Revolution Wings Fascism Riot Right Wing Fascists Takeovers

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Riots are the voices of the unheard.”

Voice Revolution Riot Unheard

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.”

People Littles Vision Teach Revolution Down And Remains Rebellious Without Hope

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

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