William Buckland Quotes

The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at present occupied by a single revolution of our globe, but PERIODS of a much longer extent.

William Buckland

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• We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Justice
  • Fire
  • Revolution

• Creativity is how we cope with creation. While creation sometimes seems a bit un-graspable, or even pointless, creativity is always meaningful.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Creativity
  • Creation
  • Meaningful

• I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Party
  • Revolution

• We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Revolution
  • Socialism
  • Our

• Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Real
  • Revolution
  • Sign

• There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Revolution
  • Green
  • Creating

• This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Time
  • Present
  • Creation

• For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Time
  • Women
  • Struggle

• We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Time
  • American
  • Revolution

• At the English Revolution, when William of Orange came to the throne, the introduction of French wines into the country was prohibited, and this gave a great impetus to the manufacture of cyder and care in the production of cyder of the best description.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Great
  • Country
  • Best

• Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Never
  • Revolution
  • Place

• The Arab Spring is kind of a perfect model for how people are going to use technology to act collectively in their own interest in the future. There's never been a revolution that was coordinated by social media to the degree that the Arab Spring was.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Future
  • Perfect

• You ask, 'What about the innocent bystanders?' But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Time
  • Revolution
  • Innocent

• Go by reverently, and read with sober careHow a great people, riding with defiant shoutsThe centaur of Revolution,Spurred and whipped to frenzy,Shook with terror, seeing the mist of the seaOver the precipice they were nearing,And fell from his back in precipitate aweTo celebrate the Feast of the Supreme Being.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • People
  • Great
  • Revolution

• I want to tell Carter and Begin that when the Arabs set off their volcano there will be only Arabs in this part of the world… Our people will continue to fuel the torch of the revolution with rivers of blood until the whole of the occupied homeland is liberated, the whole of the homeland is liberated, not just a part of it.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • People
  • World
  • Revolution

• The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • History
  • Nature
  • Car

• In every revolution, there are winners and losers. Every dystopia is a utopia for somebody else. It just depends where you are. Are you in the class that benefits, or are you in the class that's not?

  

  Ken Liu
  • Revolution

• That hope that was given, that joy that was given, the millions of blessings and favor. Whatever I needed, He provided. Whatever I wanted, He said yes to it many times; and that made me know that I was serving the right person and that I was on the right track.

  

  Ricky Dillard
  • Person
  • Track
  • Blessings

• I have a lot of wonderful things happening in my life.

  

  Aras Baskauskas
  • Life
  • Things
  • Happening

• Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being 'somebody,' to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation. One can either see or be seen.

  

  John Updike
  • Celebrity

• It is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.

  

  William Penn
  • People
  • Men
  • Religion

• The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at present occupied by a single revolution of our globe, but PERIODS of a much longer extent.

  

  William Buckland
  • Revolution
  • Creation
  • Periods