#robes

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#every #puts #revolution #robes #successful

It's the twenty-first century. Arriving to find a bunch of old dudes in brown robes would be equally weird. ↗

— Kendare Blake

#robes #twenty-first-century #equality

You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#bands #blue #clergy #coats #down

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#buffalo #few #had #indians #most

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. ↗

— Merle Shain

#clothes #gowns #hide #robes #small

And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#robespierre #love

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#opinion #probes #social-science #understanding #wisdom

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. ↗

— Thomas Campbell

#enchantment #hue #lends #mountain #robes

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ. ↗

— William Gurnall

#armour #christ #day #else #glory

I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#afraid #along #been #being #bigots