"A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon - authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire..."

-- Friedrich Engels

#Party Quotes #Communication Quotes #Mean Quotes

“We all know or have read about someone who has been burned on social media. We have taught our kids not to post pictures publicly that could impact their future, but we have not yet taught ourselves that texts, messages and social media posts could be used just as maliciously or with as much downside as pictures.”
“But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.”
“Whenever I have a problem, I ask the Saint (ThÃ©rÃ¨se of Lisieux) not to solve it, but to take it into her hands and to help me accept it and I almost always receive a white rose as a sign.”
“When I say that there's commonality, I mean more in terms of the sort of techniques by which we perceive Baroque and minimalist music rather than the techniques used to compose them. I know that's being sort of overly complicated.”
“Kissing tends to bring on woolgathering, even amnesia.”

Source : Faith Baldwin (1972). “One more time”, Holt McDougal
“Who controls the issuance of money controls the government!”
“The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.”
“Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.”

Source : Dana Reinhardt (2009). “How to Build a House”, p.173, Wendy Lamb Books

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