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"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."
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"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."
"Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one."
"All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions."
"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."
"The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims."
"People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice! There's dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, "And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies."
"There is going on in the world today a quiet, bloodless revolution. It has no fanfare, no newspaper coverage, no propaganda; yet it is changing the course of thousands of lives. It is restoring purpose and meaning to life as men of all races and nationalities are finding peace with God."
"You said, 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."
"This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!"
"Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull."
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"Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment."
"The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality."
"If quantitatively the American achievement is impressive, qualitatively it is somewhat less satisfying."
"The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service."
"The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope."
"An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen."
"According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication."
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