“The day has gone by when a monk can tear a Hypatia from the pursuit of philosophy and throw her to a rabble of insane monastics to be dragged to a violent death.... Man has made himself a law unto himself, publishing it in his pretended "heavenly" revelations, dogmas, and statutes. Woman is not constructing a law unto herself, and she is putting it forth, not on a pretendedly supernatural, but on a natural basis.” MenMadePhilosophyLawNaturalGoneAtheismTearsBasesPositive AtheismPursuitViolentInsaneRevelationsHeavenlyDogmaPublishingMonkStatutesViolent Death Author:Ellen Battelle Dietrick
“At one point, we were stuck at the border of Peru and Colombia and met this large Haitian population that was stranded there without passports and couldn't move. We had this revelation that, as tourists, we were so free to move, and here was this other population who couldn't cross borders.” MovingMetsCrossesPopulationStuckBordersRevelationsTouristsPassportsColombiaPeruStrandedHaitian Author:Sam Pressman
“I think for me, I had a long-standing desire to orchestrate the sunrise, and never came up with the right thing on piano. So at a certain moment, I had the revelation that the whole thing would be electronic, not traditional acoustic.” ThinkingLongWholeMomentsWould BeDesireCertainStandingTraditionalPianoRight ThingRevelationsSunriseAcoustics Author:Suzanne Ciani
“The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.” WorldFirstsMayCountryStatesResultsOpinionGroupsDangerDevelopmentHigherAuthorityMassConsequenceAppreciateDifficultyMethodFundamentalsErrorsWorkersDeeperSocialismInstanceInevitableRevelationsContradictionSovietIsolatedDeclineSocialistBureaucracyRulingPublic Opinion Author:Leon Trotsky
“If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.” IfsAbleRevelationsExpectingAlterationsStart The Day Author:Ian Bogost
“Kant's aim was to develop a religion within the boundaries of mere reason (that is, reason unaided by special empirical revelation) and then to ask about existing ecclesiastical faith (especially about Christianity, and the Lutheran Christianity of his time and place) how this revealed faith must be interpreted if it is to be reconciled with reason, and even seen as a wider (though morally optional) extension of a religion of reason.” IfsReasonAsksChristianitySpecialAimMereBoundariesRevelationsExtensionsOptionalLutherans Author:Allen W. Wood
“Revelation isn't just end time's prophecy, it's God showing off his Son and his glory and honoring us, his treasured bride, with a seat at his table forever!” EndsForeverSonGloryTablesRevelationsSeatsProphecyEnd TimesBridesShowing OffTreasured Author:Jennifer Rothschild
“It was a revelation for me, in a practical sense, that you could write in an African language and still reach an audience beyond that language through the art of translation.” WritingArtStillsLanguageAudiencePracticalsRevelationsTranslations Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o
“I encounter many Christians who've been raised in the church but never realized that there's a cohesive storyline from Genesis to Revelation.” ChristianChurchRaisedEncountersRevelationsGenesisStoryline Author:David Kim
“The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ.” PersonsBookJesusChristJesus ChristFinalsRevelations Author:Desmond Tutu
“You have to say, whatever it is that I say or do or think or teach must be something that will be consistent with who Jesus Christ was. So that is your ultimate litmus test, not that you've got specific words to say, whatever they may be saying. It is what is being said. They're consistent with the revelation of God that we encounter in Jesus.” ThinkingMaySaidJesusChristTeachJesus ChristTestsUltimateEncountersRevelationsConsistent Author:Desmond Tutu
“In the United States, rising esteem for the military in uniform corresponds to the growing militarization of the society as a whole. All of this despite repeated revelations of the illegality and immorality of the military's own incarceration systems, from Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib, whose systematic practices border on if not actually constitute torture.” IfsStatesWholeUnitedPracticeUnited StatesGrowingMilitaryEsteemDespiteBordersTortureRisingRevelationsUniformsSystematicImmoralityIncarcerationGuantanamoAbu Ghraib Author:Michael Hardt
“That was like the moment of revelation for me that in fact we are not the lunatic fringe.” MomentsFactsRevelationsFringeLunatic Author:Jill Stein
“There is going to be an awakening energy, a remembering and understanding. A lot of very simple revelations will move through individuals during the seminar. It's a very gentle, but powerful and empowering, process suitable for everybody who comes to this process.” RememberMovingIndividualEnergyProcessUnderstandingSimplePowerfulAwakeningGentleEmpoweringRevelationsSuitableSeminars Author:Christine McCormick Day
“There will be revelations of truth and understanding about our role within the universes, and we will start navigating with the galactic community and with other life form energies in a much more precise way, much more of a communion with those energies in accord with the acceleration that is happening on the planet.” WayFormUniverseEnergyUnderstandingCommunityRolesPlanetsHappeningsRevelationsCommunionPreciseAccordAcceleration Author:Christine McCormick Day
“I think that 99% of the snipers who take shots at me from electronic foxholes also realize they could never withstand the sort of public disparagement, nor the revelation of so many personal details, that I've endured for years and still remain as impenitent, obnoxious, and ready to argue all critics into the dirt as I am. I think this also jacks up their hatred level, because they realize they'd never be so strong-willed.” ThinkingYearsStillsStrongRealizingLevelsReadyShotsHatredCriticsDetailsArguingRevelationsDirtObnoxiousStrong WilledSnipersFoxholes Author:Jim Goad
“I would like to say something deeper, but for me, I saw a production of "Fences" in Rhode Island and a fabulous actress played Rose, but when she first came on the stage she was mad. You could just see it. She was all, "Troy stop!" So by the time you get to the revelation scene, I didn't think she loved him, so there was no loss. I think that the real tragedy and the real drama or the thing that makes you lean in is to see the love, to see the commitment. To see the fact that Rose is invested in this marriage no matter what.” ThinkingFirstsRealMatterFactsLossSawsStageDramaSceneCommitmentTragedyNo Matter WhatMadRoseProductionsDeeperActressesIslandsRevelationsFenceFabulousRhode Island Author:Viola Davis
“What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will turn out to be one of the particular historical religions that people happen to have dreamed up.” PeopleDoeIdeasHappensTurnsWonderfulParticularHistoricalRevelationsSkeptical Author:Richard Dawkins
“Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.” ReasonRevelationsComponents Author:Richard Dawkins
“The surveillance revelations are critically important because they revealed that our rights are being redefined in secret, by secret courts that were never intended to have that role - without the consent of the public, without even the awareness of the majority of our political representatives.” ImportantPoliticalSecretRolesRightsAwarenessMajorityCourtRevelationsRepresentativesConsentSurveillance Author:Edward Snowden
“Look at the reactions of liberal governments to the surveillance revelations during the last years. In the United States, we've got this big debate, but we've got official paralysis - because they're the ones who had their hand caught most deeply in the cookie jar.” YearsLooksStatesHandsBigsGovernmentLastsUnitedUnited StatesCaughtDebateReactionsOfficialsRevelationsLast YearCookiesSurveillanceJarsParalysisCookie Jars Author:Edward Snowden
“Many of our ally states don't have these constitutional protections - in the UK, in New Zealand, in Australia. They've lost the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure without probable cause. All of those countries, in the wake of these surveillance revelations, rushed through laws that were basically ghostwritten by the National Security Agency to enable mass surveillance without court oversight, without all of the standard checks and balances that one would expect.” CountryStatesLawLostCausesSecurityBalanceMassStandardsCourtProtectionChecksAgencyRevelationsAustraliaAlliesNational SecuritySurveillanceUnreasonableNew ZealandOversightSeizuresProbable CauseUnreasonable SearchesUnreasonable Search And Seizures Author:Edward Snowden
“When we think in the context of the last decade's infringements upon personal liberty and the last year's revelations, it's not about surveillance. It's about liberty.” ThinkingYearsLastsLibertyDecadesRevelationsLast YearSurveillancePersonal LibertyInfringement Author:Edward Snowden
“It's fascinating to see how things have changed. Basically, every time the US government gets off the soapbox of the Sunday-morning talk shows, the average American's support for the surveillance revelations grows.” ShowsGovernmentGrowsMorningSupportChangedAverageRevelationsFascinatingSundaySurveillanceTalk ShowsThings Have ChangedSunday MorningSoapbox Author:Edward Snowden
“Since the revelations, we have seen a massive sea change in the technological basis and makeup of the Internet.” SeaInternetBasesRevelationsMakeupMassiveTechnologicalSea Change Author:Edward Snowden
“A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore - the revelations really hurt their mystique. The last ten years, they were getting the Zero Dark Thirty treatment - they're the heroes. The surveillance revelations bring them back to Big Brother kind of narratives, and they don't like that at all.” YearsKindHas BeensMadeBigsLastsPoliticalCommunityHurtDarkDecisionBrotherHeroTenNarrativeThirtyAgencyRevelationsTreatmentZeroEmbarrassedSpySurveillanceMystiqueIntelligence CommunityPolitical DecisionsZero Dark Thirty Author:Edward Snowden
“Someone recently talked about mass surveillance and the NSA revelations as being the atomic moment for computer scientists. The atomic bomb was the moral moment for physicists. Mass surveillance is the same moment for computer scientists, when they realize that the things they produce can be used to harm a tremendous number of people.” PeopleMomentsUsedRealizingNumbersMoralProduceComputerMassScientistHarmRevelationsBombsPhysicistSurveillanceNsaAtomic Bomb Author:Edward Snowden
“At the trial of Chelsea Manning, the government could point to no case of specific damage that had been caused by the massive revelation of classified information. The charges are a reaction to the government's embarrassment more than genuine concern about these activities, or they would substantiate what harms were done.” DoneGovernmentCasesInformationActivityConcernHarmGenuineTrialsReactionsDamageRevelationsMassiveEmbarrassmentChelseaClassified InformationGenuine Concern Author:Edward Snowden
“We're now more than a year since my NSA revelations, and despite numerous hours of testimony before Congress, despite tons of off-the-record quotes from anonymous officials who have an ax to grind, not a single US official, not a single representative of the United States government, has ever pointed to a single case of individualized harm caused by these revelations. This, despite the fact that former NSA director Keith Alexander said this would cause grave and irrevocable harm to the nation.” YearsSaidStatesFactsGovernmentNationsCausesHoursUnitedCasesUnited StatesRecordsDirectorsCongressHarmGravesDespiteFormerOfficialsRevelationsRepresentativesTestimonyGrindNsaState GovernmentKeithIrrevocableUnited States Government Author:Edward Snowden
“I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.” ThinkingMenMadeBeautifulFormDifferencesFireFashionHolyNormalShoesRevelationsMutualWealthyPassagesEnginesHomageLyricalSterlingFootwearPerfectly Normal Author:William Gibson
“[James] Baldwin was a revelation for me, the kind of revelation that follows you all your life because you can go back to it. It's not just about stories. It's about philosophy. It's about criticizing the world. It's about deconstructing the world around you.” WorldKindPhilosophyStoriesRevelationsCriticize Author:Raoul Peck
“Marriage is a unified institution. Marriage means a committed, legally sanctioned relationship between a man and a woman. That's what it means. That's what it means in the revelations. That's what it means in the secular law. You cannot have that marriage coexisting institutionally with something else called same-gender marriage. It simply is a definitional impossibility.” MenMeanLawInstitutionsCommittedGenderRevelationsSecularImpossibilityUnified Author:Lance B. Wickman
“One of the revelations in that book [Lincoln in the Bardo] for me was this idea about citizenship. Even that word - citizenship - for someone my age, it makes me cringe. But, to me, the political space we're in now argues for a reboot of fairly simple ideas and the examination of the way that Americans have not been living into them.” WayBookIdeasAgePoliticalSimpleSpaceArguingRevelationsCitizenshipExaminationCringeSimple Ideas Author:George Saunders
“Ace of Spades says that this became clear to him in a revelation one night. He was watching Chris Matthews interview [Barack] Obama, and he didn't get one question! He didn't ask Obama one question about how Obamacare works. Every question was one degree or another: How do you feel about [John] Boehner opposing it? How do you feel about it? What will make you happy? Do you think you can get it? [It] was irrelevant!” ThinkingFeelsNightAsksClearDegreesBarackInterviewsRevelationsIrrelevantOne NightMake You HappyObamacareOpposingMatthewSpadesAces Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I believe God lets us go through all of what we go through for a reason and it's all part of a continued learning curve and journey of revelation and knowledge.” BelieveReasonI BelieveJourneyRevelationsBelieve In GodCurvesLearning Curve Author:Stephen Baldwin
“We are seeing every night on the television news now a nature hike through the Book of Revelation. These climate-related extreme weather events have convinced the vast majority of people that the scientists have been right for a long time. We have to address this.” PeopleLongHas BeensBookNightSeeingEventsTelevisionNewsLong TimeScientistMajorityClimateExtremesConvincedWeatherRelatedRevelationsAddressesEvery NightTelevision NewsBook Of RevelationExtreme Weather Author:Al Gore
“In Islam, we believe that it is God himself who is the ultimate guide - Al Hadi - one of the names of God is Al Hadi, the Guide. But at the same time, God has provided within the Islamic revelation the possibility of spiritual guidance through human beings, because then everyone can have direct access to God.” BelieveHumansSpiritualNamesHuman BeingsPossibilityDirectUltimateIslamGuidesAccessGuidanceIslamicRevelationsAlsSpiritual Guidance Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“When I'm online and I see a picture I want to draw of anybody or anything, a unique angle of them or just something that looks very drawable, I slide it to my desktop and put it in a folder. It just seems like every picture of Trump is a revelation. Any angle. I didn't know a person could look like that. His facial expressions - he really is a cartoon. He's like an instruction manual of how to caricature someone.” KnowsWantLooksPersonsSeemsExpressionTrumpUniqueDrawsRevelationsOnlineInstructionAngleCartoonSlidesManualsCaricaturesFacialFacial ExpressionDesktopFolders Author:Barry Blitt
“If the bishops are saying that it is divine revelation that seven percent of unemployment is morally unacceptable and that that is a teaching which must as a matter of faith be accepted by all Catholics, I respectfully dissent.” TeachingDivineCatholicSevenAcceptedRevelationsDissent Author:Bruce Babbitt
“I think it was a big revelation to me earlier in my life that people who appear to be evil are actually not. In other words, nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "Yuck, yuck, yuck, I'm gonna be evil." I think even like Saddam Hussein or Hitler would wake up and say, "I think it's going to be a good day. I'm gonna do some really important work." And given their definition of good, they went out and did horrible things.” PeopleThinkingImportantEvilMorningWake UpHorribleRevelationsGood Day Author:George Saunders
“Adam and Eve - and especially Eve - are victims of the greatest character assassination the world has ever known. Eve is not secondary. Eve, if anything, is the great initiator in the story. She's the first independent woman. For me, rediscovering that Eve was the greatest bad**s women of all time was a revelation.” WorldCharacterIndependentVictimAll TimeRevelationsAdam And EveIndependent Women Author:Bruce Feiler
“I've been going to San Diego's Comic-Con every year since 2007 or 2008. The first time I went it was an overwhelming experience because I wasn't expecting all the people; I wasn't even expecting all the joy. I came from a background where, when I was about eighteen or nineteen, I found comic-book fandom. But it was the fandom of online communities. And within those communities there was a tremendous amount of excitement and joy, but I'd never been around people in such a large group setting where this joy was pouring out of them. It was a revelation.” PeopleJoyCommunityFirst TimeExcitementRevelationsOnlineOverwhelmingExpectingEighteen Author:Marjorie M. Liu
“For most couples who come to me - especially in the aftermath of the revelation of an affair, when they are in a state of crisis and fear the loss of a predictable future - they start to have conversations for the first time about love, sex, monogamy, and marriage. Most couples don't negotiate or don't even converse about any of these things until the crisis of the affair has actually forced them to. Why does it take infidelity to get us talking about the stuff that should be there from the start?” LossCoupleFirst TimeCrisisAffairRevelationsInfidelityPredictableMonogamy Author:Esther Perel
“The meaning of secrecy is very different when the model of love is one of transparency. So to understand the politics of secrecy and revelation, you need to understand the larger culture in which the couple lives and also the culture of the couple itself. What does intimacy mean to them? Where does the couple draw the line between togetherness and separateness? That's what informs you. You always ask, "What would happen if I tell? What would happen if I don't tell?" Sometimes, the partner doesn't want to know.” MeanDifferentSometimesCultureLove IsCoupleIntimacyRevelationsSecrecyTogethernessTransparency Author:Esther Perel
“All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.” AuthorityInspiredScriptureRevelationsProphecy Author:Sam Storms
“The filmmakers are very much in their own kind of bubble. It was kind of a revelation to me and I realized why so many of the great filmmakers are one of a kind people. You know, they have a vision. They may be influenced by other filmmakers, but they don't work with them on anything.” PeopleKindVisionI RealizedFilmmakerRevelationsBubblesGreat FilmOne Of A KindKind People Author:Mick Garris
“This was the first time we had two ex-Soviet Cosmonauts in Houston. A lot of us, including me, viewed it with some skepticism, because I grew up during the Cold War, so I had been hit with all this propaganda all along that their stuff wasn't that good, it wasn't that safe and we were so much better. What I found out later was that their space stuff was very good and good enough that I was certainly comfortable flying on their equipment. So, it was kind of a revelation of sorts as the years went by and I think it underscores the importance right now of international cooperation.” ThinkingKindWarEnoughColdFirst TimeImportanceVery GoodFlyingPropagandaRevelationsGood EnoughCooperationSkepticismCold War Author:Leroy Chiao
“We're still putting 110 million tons of man-made global pollution into the air every single day as if the sky is an open sewer. More than 90% of the extra heat energy is going into the oceans, and that's why superstorm Sandy was so much more destructive, that's why the ice is melting more rapidly, that's why the water cycle is being disrupted and we get a lot more water vapor coming from the oceans into the sky, and that's why we get these enormous downpours and big floods. They happen all the time. Every night on the TV news is like a nature hike through the Book of Revelation.” BookNightEnergyWaterOceanExtrasRevelationsPollutionFlood Author:Al Gore
“Look at Charlotte Gainsbourg, in the Lars von Trier film Antichrist. She's unbelievable. She doesn't act; she's there. She's great. And you love her for that, because it's so daring, what she has to do. And she does it as if it is nothing. I think she's brave. I fell in love with her when I saw that film. She is a revelation. Total revelation.” ThinkingFilmBraveRevelationsDaringUnbelievableAntichrist Author:Chantal Akerman
“There were periods in Islamic history when things like apostasy and blasphemy were made punishable. So you know it kind of depends - there's no argument, quite apart from the question of the divine or otherwise nature of the Qur'an, that huge swathes of Islamic law are man-made. Clerics here - in maintaining their power, will often try to elide that and say "Well no, actually this isn't man-made at all. Stoning is part of the divine revelation." It isn't in the Qur'an but the way this has been done over the years is to take the Hadith.” TryingKindDoneDivineArgumentIslamicRevelationsBlasphemy Author:Sadakat Kadri