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“Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.”

Values Revolution Foundation Lays Injustice Oppression Deceit Ethical Ethical Values Future Society

Book:My Disillusionment in Russia

Source: My Disillusionment in Russia

“Before Kuhn, most scientists followed the place-a-stone-in-the-bright-temple-of-knowledge tradition, and would have told you that they hoped, above all, to lay many of the bricks, perhaps even the keystone, of truth's temple. Now most scientists of vision hope to foment revolution. We are, therefore, awash in revolutions, most self-proclaimed.”

Self Vision Revolution Tradition Stones Scientist Lays Temples Bricks Keystones

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fiber optic cables to speed up digital revolution. They work by the light of a few candles.”

Light Night House Century Revolution India Lays Speed Digital Candle Every Night Gang Cables Digging Fiber Trenches Laborers Digital Revolution

Author:Arundhati Roy

“It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.”

Men Believe Children Said Sex Virtue Revolution Lays Manners Estates Bandages Girth

Book:Emerson in His Journals

Source: Emerson in His Journals

“Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.”

“If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.”

Ifs Men Should Christ Church Revolution Members Lays Notion Average Ministers Short Time

Author:D. Elton Trueblood

“If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!”

Ifs Country Military Revolution Arms Lays Englishmen Total War Good Patriotic

Book:A history of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: containing his speeches in Parliament : a considerable portion of his correspondence, when Secretary of State, upon French, Spanish, and American affairs, never before published with an account of the principal events and persons of his time, connected with his life, sentiments and administrations ; (Mit dem Bildnisse Pitts)

Source: A history of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: containing his speeches in Parliament : a considerable portion of his correspondence, when Secretary of State, upon French, Spanish, and American affairs, never before published with an account of the principal events and persons of his time, connected with his life, sentiments and administrations ; (Mit dem Bildnisse Pitts)

“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness — and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe. The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling — their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.”

Source: War Talk