"To the reactionary ear every whispered criticism of the elite classes has always sounded like the opening shot of an uprising."

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Source : RICHARD HOFSTADTER (1962). “The American Political Tradition And the Men Who Made It”

Richard Hofstadter

#Class Quotes #Uprising Quotes #Criticism Quotes

“The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you're with. You have to every single day-mind, body, and spirit-wake up with a commitment to be better.”
“[Examiners] spend their lives in discovering which pages of a text-book a man ought to read and which will not be likely to 'pay'.”

Source : "Life and scientific work of Peter Guthrie Tait". Book by Cargill Gilston Knott, p. 11, 1911.
“The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.”
“The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet.”
“A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.”
“It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.”
“I had one class in the morning, the mysteriously named "Further Maths". It was two hours long and so deeply frightening that I think I went into a trance.”
“How do we break this cycle of adding to the unconsciousness on the planet? The answer lies in seeing that our true nature consists ONLY of love, and so that is ALL we have to give [and see] when we know ourselves as that...”

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