Famous Quotes & Sayings

William O. Douglas

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

Lajos Kossuth

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

Bernie Sanders

What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.

Ambrose Bierce

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Thomas Kuhn

Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all

John Stuart Mill

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.

Jill Johnston

Until all women are lesbians, there will be no true political revolution.

Daisaku Ikeda

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

Will Rogers

Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.

Will Rogers

Don't raise anything, except what fits your appetite. Then the price don't worry you. Just raise all you can eat and let the low prices go by.

Will Rogers

Every time somebody has thought of relief for the farmer it has been to make it so he could borrow more money. What he needs is some way to pay back. Not some way to borrow more.

Will Rogers

Farmers spend more time at Conventions than they do plowing.

Will Rogers

Farmers have more Associations, and Bureaus, and Clubs, than they have pitchforks.

Will Rogers

Rotation of crops and less automobiles will relieve the farmers whenever they decide to try it.

Will Rogers

Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.

Will Rogers

What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.

Will Rogers

Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.

Atharva Veda

Humanity is in spiritual ignorance; people see things that do not exist.

Richard Paul Evans

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

Russell Brand

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

Trip Hawkins

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

Sarah Kane

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

Sandra Postel

Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.

Willa Cather

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

William Blackstone

Mankind will not be reasoned out of the feelings of humanity.

Wayne Shorter

Your humanity is your instrument.