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Letter "R" » revolutions
«At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned»
«History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.»
«Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.»
«All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
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Economist,
Logician,
Philosopher)
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Keywords:
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«All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.»
«Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.»
Author: Henry Miller
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Author,
Writer)
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Keywords:
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Bad Taste,
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«A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Libraries
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Keywords:
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The Monument,
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«Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions»
«A family is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.»
«Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.»