Quotes of: Revolutionaries Keyword

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

H. G. Wells

Religion, which was obviously created to give meaning and purpose to people, has become part of the oppression. This is true in both Eastern and Western religious traditions. The Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad were all revolutionaries who critiqued and a...

Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

Over the course of the millennia, all these multitudes of ancestors, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in time—to give birth to you. There has never been, nor will ever be, another like you. You have been given a tremendous ...

One Immigrant's Legacy: The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009: A Biographical Record of Revolutionary War Veteran Capt. John George Overmire and His Descendants

Contemplating the goodness within ourselves is a classical meditation, done to bring light, joy, and rapture to the mind. In contemporary times this practice might be considered rather embarrassing, because so often the emphasis is on all the unfortu...

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

In a post-Christian, skeptical age, love on display is the most convincing apologetic.

Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary

Awe combined with intimacy is the essence of Christian worship.

Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary

I've always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself.

Bonds of Earth

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Paul Gauguin

It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

Janos Kadar

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Mao Zedong

Our future experiences will be colored by the choices we make in the present.

Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries

He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.

Revolutionary Road

If you don't try at anything, you can't fail... it takes backbone to lead the life you want.

Revolutionary Road

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

Revolutionary Road

The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.

Skipping Towards Gomorrah

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Marx in Soho: A Play on History

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.

Maxims and Reflections

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell

We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality.

The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary

In today's world simple kindness is a revolutionary act.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life