Best revolution & passion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.”

Children Stories Eye Passion Parent Tears Revolution Listening Tales Pity Shakes Shameful American Revolution Boiling Glisten

Author:John Hancock

“A people contending for life and liberty are seldom disposed to look with a favorable eye upon either men or measures whose passions, interests or consequences will clash with those inestimable objects.”

People Men Looks Eye Passion Interest Liberty Objects Revolution Consequence Clash Contending

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799: prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington bicentennial commission and published by authority of Congress

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799: prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington bicentennial commission and published by authority of Congress

“We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.”

War Certain Passion Born Differences Common Land Revolution Grew Ideals Tradition Wide Realization

Author:Vincent Massey

“Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.”

Men May Political Passion Politics Taught Revolution Lessons Sincerity Dogma Political Systems French Revolution

Book:Abraham Lincoln

Source: Abraham Lincoln

“The complaints of contemporary writes, who deplore the increase of luxury and deprevation of manners, are commonly expressive of their peculiar temper and situation. There are few observers who possess a clear and comprehensive view of the revolutions of society, and who are capable of discovering the nice and secret springs of action which impel, in the same uniform direction, the bland and capricious passions of a multitude of individuals.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us. When we begin to take the lowest places, to wash the feet of others, to love our brothers with that burning love, that passion which led to the cross, then we can truly say, 'Now I have begun'.”

Heart Passion Challenges Feet Brother Revolution Crosses Burning Lowest Burning Love

Author:Dorothy Day

“To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.”

Source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: 18 June, 1779 to 30 September, 1780

“The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family passions to the passions and ideals that bind individuals to new family units, to their communities, to the species, to nature, to the cosmos. Therefore, given half a chance, the revolution at issue in adolescence becomes a revolution of transformation, not of annihilation.”

Past Purpose Passion Individual Given Community Chance Half Issues Revolution Ideals Transformation Species Cosmos Adolescence Units Annihilation Deployment Family Unit New Family

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.”

Men Different Age Passion Causes Revolution Occasions Affected Great Change

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Men without hope, resigned to despair and oppression, do not make revolutions. It is when expectation replaces submission, when despair is touched with the awareness of possibility, that the forces of human desire and the passion for justice are unloosed.”

Men Humans Desire Passion Force Justice Awareness Possibility Revolution Despair Expectations Oppression Touched Submission Without Hope Resigned

Book:Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

Source: Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy

“Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all.”

Way Passion Magic Revolution Defeat Ancient Invention One Way

Book:Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles

Source: Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles

“Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.”

Life Wisdom Political Passion Emotion Revolution Quiet Lifetime Patriotism Patriotic Steady Dedication Tranquility Tranquil Frenzy Rights And Freedoms Outburst Steadiness

Author:Adlai E. Stevenson

“The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.”

Men Passion Human Nature Revolution Good Man Excess

Book:Papers

Source: Papers

“A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.”

Self Desire Passion Movement Revolution Mass Following Rebellion Advancement Renunciation

Book:The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the crowd of black passions & motives that seem now a days to urge men every where into action. What incredible scenes every where, what unworthy motives ruled for the moment, under high sounding phrases and at the last what disgusting revolutions.”

Source: The letters of Faraday and Schoenbein 1836-1862: With notes, comments and references to contemporary letters

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