Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.
Saki
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Doug Belshaw
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Doug Belshaw
Revolution is not the up-rising against the existing order, but the setting-up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one.
José Ortega y Gasset
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Doug Belshaw
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
George Bernard Shaw
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