Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Germaine Greer

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Revolution Politics

Author

Germaine Greer

Source

The Female Eunuch

Genre

Feminist literature

Language

English

Time

1970 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Feminist Writer

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Australia Oceania

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Citation

Greer, Germaine. The Female Eunuch. MacGibbon & Kee, 1970.

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If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

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Gravity's Rainbow
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Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow. Viking Press, 1973.

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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

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Alexander Hamilton
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Federalist 15 The Federalist Papers
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Genre
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Time
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Hamilton, Alexander [published as Publius]. "Federalist No. 15: The Insufficiency of the Present Confederation to Preserve the Union." Independent Journal, 1 Dec. 1787.

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Hamilton, Alexander. "No. 15: Its great defect: can only legislate for states.--Hamilton." The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, edited by Robert Scigliano. The Modern Library, 2001.