Counterrevolution And Revolt Quotes & Sayings

Show me three lines of the opening theory moves and I will prove to you that two of them are incorrect. — Emanuel Lasker

Curiosity is the origin of knowledge. Experience is the origin of wisdom. — Debasish Mridha

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction. — Carl Clinton Van Doren

The word lust [can] mean "selfish desire." ... It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay. — Billy Graham

I have never met anyone who is addicted to alcohol who isn't drinking for a lot of dead spirits! — Robert Moss

American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story. — Alia Shawkat

When good men does nothing, evil thrives. When good men speak up, evil dies. — Jeanette Coron

It is my governing conviction, in all that follows, that much of modernity should be understood not as a grand revolt against the tyranny of faith, not as a movement of human liberation and progress, but as a counterrevolution, a reactionary rejection of a freedom which it no longer understands, but upon which it remains parasitic. Even when modern persons turn away from Christian conviction, there are any number of paths that have been irrevocably closed to them - either because they lead toward philosophical positions that Christianity has assumed successfully into its own story, or because they lead toward forms of "superstition" that Christianity has rendered utterly incredible to modern minds. A post-Christian unbeliever is still, most definitely, for good or for ill, post-Christian. We live in a world transformed by an ancient revolution - social, intellectual, metaphysical, moral, spiritual - the immensity of which we often only barely grasp. — David Bentley Hart