This quote is simply saying that you can reason with someone on the pros of a belief and not get good results if he or she has nothing to compare it to. People change as time goes on. The person experience what life has to offer rather it is good or bad. He or she is more likely to agree with the belief. They can draw on their experiences to decide the truth of a belief. Some people go through changes day by day. For others, it takes a little more time than usual.
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It is typically used on ships to mean that a crew turns against their captain for whatever reason, but it is now more broadly used to mean any group turning against their leader.
Society became more equal. (APEX)
Spiritual awakening became more important than sacrifice.
Anyone who owns the means of production (productive land, factories, etc) or who makes a profit through the exploitation of wage labour -- employing someone for a wage which is less than the value their labour provides. The implication is that the member of the bourgeoisie can therefore live off of that labour, since it is creating surplus value for them. It is the bourgeoisie's monopoly over the means of production which allows them to enter into this kind of uneven exchange; the theory is that since the workers don't own the means of living, they are more or less indirectly forced by economic pressure to enter into the exchange - sell their labour - in order to get a living wage.
a formal agreement made between two or more countries, e.g. to end a war to form an alliance