George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder."
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Rebellious
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George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination."
Jean Genet
Playwright, Novelist
"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
John Stuart Mill
Philosopher, Political Economist
"The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine."
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"Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability."
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"We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them."
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"Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned."
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"I think you can be defiant and rebellious and still be strong and positive."
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"More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other."
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"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."
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"Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject."
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"I went through a period when I was rebellious and a mess of a person."
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"Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty."
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"We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?"
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"There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem."
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"I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded."
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"In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake."
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"I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit."
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"Why are the people rebellious? Because the rulers interfere too much. Therefore they are rebellious."
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"Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law."
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"No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it."
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"Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society."
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"The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character."
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"If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals."
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