Counter Revolution Quotes

#1. Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

John F. Kennedy

#2. To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again

Terence McKenna

#3. And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution
what awaits them?

Karl Marx

#4. As liberals, men like Richter viewed socialism as the great modern counter-revolution, and believed that the achievement of the socialist goal would lead both to appalling poverty and state absolutism. There was nothing in the socialist doctrine of the time that would suggest otherwise.

Ralph Raico

#5. Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?

John Heywood

#6. Universal suffrage is counter-revolution.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#7. It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#8. Even in the saddest moments of life, the happiness of simply being, the joy of just having existence must be remembered strongly!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. Buju Banton plays

Danielle Imara

#10. It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#11. Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.

Andrei Grechko

#12. One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

Louis Kronenberger

#13. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#14. An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

Mark Twain

#15. The kulaks were contagious. Their souls were contagious. They carried the spores of counter-revolution.

Robert Harris

#16. She was going to be mine, but then my landlord said no dogs." "You live in your own house." "I'm awfully strict.

Jill Shalvis

#17. Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

Ignazio Silone

#18. We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, and the factious, which aims at the division of the empire and destruction of the authority - and perhaps of the lives - of the reigning branch, both of which parties are fomenting troubles.

Marquis De Lafayette

#19. I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.

Mac Barnett

#20. I never quite understood these actors - though I envy them sometimes - who can lie out for a year or two. I feel as though time is a real pressing issue, and I want to get as much work done in the time that I have left.

Sylvester Stallone

#21. History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

Gary Ross

#22. The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

Albert Camus

#23. If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.

Nathan Fillion

#24. The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.

George Mikes

#25. I really like beer.

Joss Whedon