Silent Revolution Quotes

#1. It looks like Russian," said Mrs. Knight. Her voice echoed in the lounge. It sounded like her vocal cords were made from the same pale rawhide used for dog toys.

Peter Clines

#2. The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be fearless in crossing the threshold of the communication and information revolution now taking place.

Pope John Paul II

#3. Feminism is not a one size fits all kinda thing but anyone can wear it.

Jess

#4. Procrastination is what we often call 'resistance.

William Peter Blatty

#5. The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they're not major investors in their home country.

Jairam Ramesh

#6. Dallas Green is basically Canadian royalty.

Sara Quin

#7. A silent, unavoidable revolution is taking place in society, a revolution THAT CARES AS LITTLE ABOUT THE HUMAN LIVES IT DESTROYS as an earthquake cares about the houses it ravages. Classes and RACES THAT ARE TOO WEAK to dominate the new conditions of existence WILL BE DEFEATED.

Karl Marx

#8. Carson's thesis that we were subjecting ourselves to slow poisoning by the misuse of chemical pesticides that polluted the environment may seem like common currency now, but in 1962 Silent Spring contained the kernel of social revolution.

Rachel Carson

#9. There is no bigger judgment for a president of the United States than how you take a nation to war.

John F. Kerry

#10. Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not.

E. M. Forster

#11. All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Richard Rohr

#12. Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.

Amy Tan

#14. The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#15. It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.'

Kevin Brownlow

#16. The world's all full of thoughts about wars and space, and tragedies to the world. That's what writers are thinking about because that's what the world is thinking about.

Bette Davis

#17. Your silent rebellion is unstoppable.

Strider Marcus Jones

#18. If you want to shine like sun first you have to burn like it.

Adolf Hitler

#19. We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

Mary Heaton Vorse

#20. Twenties, served as his judge in 1937 and even denounced a

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#21. Someone asked me the other day if I believe in conspiracies. Well, sure. Here's one. It is called the political system. It is nothing if not a giant conspiracy to rob, trick and subjugate the population.

Jeffrey Tucker

#22. I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller, before they were in school.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#23. Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way.

Karl Marx