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“It seems acceptable today to scream for revolution, without any concept of what will follow it. This is just what the forces at large want, for who will follow a man who doesn't know where he's going?”

Knows Men Want Seems Today Force Revolution Concepts Scream Acceptable

Author:William Powell

“Since Khomeini's death, the popular appeal of an Islamic state - and of fundamentalism - has surely dimmed. Thinkers still debate and warriors kill, but no country seems prepared to emulate Iran. Perhaps revolutions happen only under majestic leaders, and no one like Khomeini has since appeared.”

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Author:Ruhollah Khomeini

“Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which these new industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you”

Ifs Has Beens Stills Seems Poverty Revolution Industry Useless Goods Wages Deceived Slogans Better Now

Book:Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

Source: Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman

“Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream .”

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Author:Ernest Renan

“What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.”

Seems Law Liberty Produce Revolution Terrible Bizarre

Author:Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

“I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself.”

“Could it be argued that if the Chinese revolution seems to be a response to the needs of rural society, whereas the Russian is an urbanized phenomenon, this difference corresponds to that which exists between the users of two different forms of written communication, the one archaic, the other alphabetic?”

Ifs Needs Two Different Seems Form Differences Written Communication Revolution Response Chinese Phenomenon Users Chinese Revolution

Author:Eric A. Havelock

“The older dictators fell because they could never supply their subjects with enough bread, enough circuses, enough miracles, and mysteries. Under a scientific dictatorship, education will really work' with the result that most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown.”

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Author:Aldous Huxley

“New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.”

Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s

“In the case of women, it is of the living and unpublished blood that the violent world has professed to be delicate and ashamed. See the curious history of the political rights of woman under the Revolution. On the scaffold she enjoyed an ungrudged share in the fortunes of party. Political life might be denied her, but that seems a trifle when you consider how generously she was permitted political death.”

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Author:Alice Meynell

“[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.”

People Seems Government Taken Revolution Republican Clothes Suits Ease Throwing American Revolution Republican Government

Book:1777-18 June, 1779, including the Revisal of the laws, 1776-1786

Source: 1777-18 June, 1779, including the Revisal of the laws, 1776-1786

“In comparison to the French Revolution, the American Revolution has come to seem a parochial and rather dull event. This, despitethe fact that the American Revolution was successful--realizing the purposes of the revolutionaries and establishing a durable political regime--while the French Revolution was a resounding failure, devouring its own children and leading to an imperial despotism, followed by an eventual restoration of the monarchy.”

“Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.”

Art Seems Spirituality Sex Violence Revolution Promise Drug Wander Deliverance

Author:Mason Cooley

“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.”

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Author:David McCullough

“Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every field combining high risk and complexity. Checklists seem lowly and simplistic, but they help fill in for the gaps in our brains and between our brains.”

Helping Seems Turns Brain Quality Risk Fields Revolution Tools Productivity Complexity Aviation Gaps Construction Engineering Combining High Risk Checklists

Author:Atul Gawande

“It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.”

Needs Ends Seems Father Figures Revolution Personality Chinese Cult Father Figure

Author:John Lennon

“The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.”

Seems Produce Revolution Mass Standards Ethical Urban Careless Industrial Revolution Ethical Standards

Book:On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

Source: On Literature, Cultures, and Religion

“I thought the Made in America men's wear push was a big revolution in terms of smaller companies taking charge, but it seems like it's gotten out of control.”

Men Made Bigs Seems America Term Company Revolution Taking Charge Made In America

Author:Mark McNairy

“I'd spent thirty years visiting the Dalai Lama, and twenty years as a journalist going to difficult places, war zones and revolutions from North Korea to Haiti and Beirut to Sri Lanka, and the question came up: What does this man have to offer to this world which seems so torn up and so attached to conflict?”

“Because the left, George Bush won two elections, 2000 and 2004. So 2008, we didn't see. It was obviously there. We saw effervescence and this bubbling up of this extreme left-wing cultural revolution, so to speak, but it seems like with the inauguration of [Barack] Obama, outward appearances, it seemed like the country flipped and did a 180 overnight.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.”

Way Seems Next Revolution Creating Green Gmos Green Revolution

Author:E. O. Wilson

“To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.”

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Book:The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Nothing seems crueler--or more ironic--than these upper crusters who never pay a dime for their high-priced shrinks or reflexology sessions to call those who just want that tumor removed from their uterus a bunch of commies. Well, the revolution is at hand and let's hope all those uninsured commies give the rich such a headache that a whole bottle of Advil won't be enough to take the pain way.”

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Book:Dude, Where's My Country?

Source: Dude, Where's My Country?

“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.”

“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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