Famous quotes containing the words state, protection, authority and/or revolution:
“Men judge by the complexion of the sky
The state and inclination of the day.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been—what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal—needs to be protected from people.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“... each of them is inhabited by a bland demon, as the German metaphysicians used to call that which gets into a man and makes him creative, not so forcibly that it turns them away from criticism, but valid enough to give them the right to speak with the authority of artists.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“... rhetoric never won a revolution yet.”
—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)