“In virtually every Continental state at this time, aristocracies had to live with the risk that their property might be pillaged or confiscated. Only in Great Britain did it prove possible to float the idea that aristocratic property was in some magical and strictly intangible way the people's property also. The fact that hundreds of thousands of men and women today are willing to accept that privately owned country houses and their contents are part of Britain's national heritage is one more proof of how successfully the British elite reconstructed its cultural image in an age of revolution.” PeopleMenWayIdeasCountryStatesFactsMightAgeTodayHouseAcceptingRiskWillingRevolutionProveMen And WomenPropertyBritishProofBritainHeritageElitesFloatsAristocracyGreat BritainIntangibleBritish HistoryContinentalAristocraticCountry Houses Book:Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837
“If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that.” IfsMenTryingProblemHouseWillingRevolutionLonelySlave Author:Yoko Ono
“In an intellectual revolution there must be ideas and advocates willing to challenge an entire profession, the establishment itself, willing to spend their reputations and careers in spreading the idea through deeds as well as words.” WellsIdeasChallengesCareersWillingRevolutionIntellectualDeedsProfessionReputationEstablishment Author:Jude Wanniski
“The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willing to work for peace at any price, except at the price of liberty.” StillsLibertyClassStruggleWillingRevolutionPeacefulPossessingEconomic Inequality Book:Freedom, Equality and Solidarity Source: Freedom, Equality and Solidarity