#aw

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#awful #because #century #demagoguery #history

It was nice, though, to have the long term benefit to be able to pare away those things and eventually make the character my own and put my own unique stamp. ↗

— Michael Shanks

#away #benefit #character #eventually #long

I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#asked #cartoons #draw #i #lucky

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#capable #catastrophe #chance #clearly #courageously

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#drawing #irish #irish people #lot #people

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#be happy #certain #change #constitute #departure

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#about #aware #background #because #heroes

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#away #gift #given #taken #talent

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself. ↗

— Kevin Shelley

#deeply #done #errors #ever #i

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism. ↗

— Sam Shepard

#away #being #being responsible #care #democracy