“It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener's watering pot.” HumansCharacterBeliefJusticeEffortFireRevolutionIntensePotPrudenceGardenerOutragePrairieSecession Author:Judah P. Benjamin
“Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.... An attempt to scrutinize men's thoughts and punish their opinions is of all kinds of despotism the most odious: yet this is peculiarly character of a period of revolution.... There is no period more at war with the existence of liberty.” MenKindWarCharacterExistenceLibertyOpinionAtheismRevolutionPeriodsPositive AtheismTyrannyAll KindsPregnantDespotismIndignationScrutinize Author:William Godwin
“The crime of ingratitude has not yet stained, and I trust never will stain, our national character. You are considered by them as not only having rendered important service in our own revolution, but as being, on a more extended scale, the friend of human rights, and able advocate of public liberty. To the welfare of Thomas Paine, the Americas are not, nor can they be, indifferent.” HumansImportantCharacterAbleLibertyRightsAtheismCrimeRevolutionHuman RightsPositive AtheismScalesWelfareIndifferentStainsIngratitudePaine Author:James Monroe
“Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that children didn't need them much. Mothers, who might be too soft and sentimental, could even be bad for children's character development. But when men left home during the Industrial Revolution to work elsewhere, women were "needed" at home. The cult of domesticity and motherhood became a virtue that kept women in their place.” MenNeedsChildrenIdeasCharacterHomeMightMotherLeftWorkResponsibilityRolesVirtueFieldsRevolutionDevelopmentNeededMotherhoodExpertsShopsElsewhereSentimentalCultCharacter DevelopmentIndustrial RevolutionDomesticityKept Woman Author:Sandra Scarr
“Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a new measure of sexual freedom, there's still no word in the language that doesn't reek with pejorative connotation to describe a woman who has sex freely. Since language frames thought and sets its limits, this is not a trivial matter. For without a word that describes without condemning, it's hard to think about it neutrally as well. When we say the words 'promiscuous woman,' therefore, it's a statement about her character, not just her sexual behavior.” ThinkingWellsStillsTwoMatterHardCharacterLanguageSexWomenInterestingHalfRevolutionLimitsBehaviorDecadesStatementsCondemningConnotationPromiscuousSexual Revolution Author:Lillian B. Rubin
“Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose.” KnowsMenMeanCharacterAgeIndividualDifferencesMoralGreatnessRevolutionIntellectualCrowdsDiscriminationOne ManFallacySuperstitiousImprinting Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“The time which passes over our heads so imperceptibly makes the same gradual change in habits, manners and character, as in personal appearance. At the revolution of every five years we find ourselves another and yet the same;--there is a change of views, and no less of the light in which we regard them; a change of motives as well as of action.” YearsWellsCharacterLightActionTimeViewsFiveRevolutionHabitRegardAppearanceMannersMotiveFive YearsPersonal AppearanceGradual Change Book:Waverley Novels Source: Waverley Novels
“Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.” PeopleMenWarCharacterSeemsActorsPerfectStageHe ManRevolutionMen And WomenDressesPhotographCivil WarPerformersUniformsCostumesHandsomePageantBradyStage Actors Author:David McCullough
“Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.” ThinkingMenFirstsBookCharacterActionCasesFansRevolutionHeroComicComic BookX MenAnti Hero Author:Hugh Jackman
“The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution of character which proceeds by changing people from the inside through ongoing personal relationship to God in Christ and to one another. It is one that changes their ideas, beliefs, feelings, and habits of choice, as well as their bodily tendencies and social relations. It penetrates to the deepest layer of their soul. External, social arrangements may be used to this end, but they are not the end, nor are they a fundamental part of the means” PeopleFirstsHumansWellsHeartMayMeanIdeasSoulEndsCharacterFeelingsUsedSpiritChoicesJesusBeliefSocialChristRevolutionHabitRelationFundamentalsTendenciesLayersArrangementsHuman HeartOngoingPenetratePersonal RelationshipsSocial Relations Author:Dallas Willard
“There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote, during the darkest days of the American Revolution, we have it in our power to begin the world over again.” PeopleMenWorldMindKindCharacterRevolutionMen And WomenExtraordinaryTomsAmerican RevolutionPaineTom Paine Author:Ronald Reagan
“Works like 'Brave New World' and 'The Handmaiden's Tale' develop their atmosphere from a movement or a revolution, as if the world has ended and has come out to this other side. When I wrote 'The Bad Batch,' I thought that the world outside the gates that confine the 'bad' characters is simply our world today.” WorldCharacterTodayRevolutionAtmosphereGatesBrave New World Author:Ana Lily Amirpour
“During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.” ThinkingNeedsYearsDoneWholeCharacterIndividualAbilityTechnologyHuman NatureSelf HelpRevolutionEthicsSevenTechnologicalSeven YearsEightySuccessionGood CharacterJudoBest Character Book:Baruch: My own story Source: Baruch: My own story
“Not long ago I learned from a certain person in considerable detail about the worthlessness of your character. All the same, it is you who have given me strength, you who have put the rainbow of revolution in my breast. It is you who have given an object to my life.” PersonsLongCharacterCertainGivenObjectsRevolutionDetailsBreastsLong AgoRainbowWorthlessness Book:The Setting Sun Source: The Setting Sun
“A revolution is coming – a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough – but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability.” IfsEnoughCharacterCarePoliticalPoliticsSuccessfulWiseRevolutionPeacefulFortunateCompassionateInevitabilityPeaceful Revolution Author:John F. Kennedy
“There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. Those with something to say. They communicate through text inscribed on true public spaces, rather than blogs and forums. Choosing fewer words, even without being bound by 140 character limits. Using ink instead of pixels. Sending messages in living, breathing space. Pens scream louder into the void. Even if permanent ink is not aptly named.” IfsCharacterArtistSpaceMovementRevolutionQuietLimitsMessagesLowsHappeningsBoundsCommunicateBreathingPermanentResolutionPensDreamerScreamVoidFewerInkBlogsProfileForumsNinjaGuerrillas140 CharacterBreathing SpacePixelsSending A Message Author:Erin Morgenstern
“Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are “poor and blank”. This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for changes, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written; the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.” PeopleGivingMayCharacterRealitySeemsActionBeautifulDesirePoorPovertyMillionsWrittenRevolutionPaperMarkGood ThingsChinaSocialismCommunismCharacteristicsBad ThingsBlankSheetsOutstandingBeautiful Picture Author:Mao Zedong
“Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.” ThinkingIdeasReasonCharacterScienceCertainNatureNaturalDarkViewsPathProgressCenturyInformationJudgingMastersRevolutionFitApproachWitnessLengthReceivingProposePupilsNatural Science Book:Critique of pure reason Source: Critique of pure reason