The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause… — William Ralph Inge

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

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Inge, William Ralph. The End of an Age and Other Essays. Putnam, 1948, ch. 6.