Quotes about Revolution

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

Revolution is evolution.

In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed.  So it is with Time in one's life. 

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

The "Terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up, you get a lot of scum on top.

The history of science is the saga of nature defying common sense.

Come come my conservative friend, wipe the dew from your spectacles. Can't you see the world is moving?

"Ideas are bulletproof."- V

The first revolution of the Western Hemisphere was that of the slaves of Saint Domingue (present-day Haiti) at the end of the eighteenth century, followed more than a century later by the Mexican revolution of the decade of 1910, and fifty years after that by the Cuban revolution. And if I do not cite here either the famous "American revolution" or that of the Spanish colonies that soon followed, it is because those only transferred the power of decision from the metropolis to the colonists so that they could go on doing the same thing, pursue the same project with even greater brutality, but without having to share the profits with the "mother country."

"Emergency regulations," said Feverstone.  "You'll never get the powers we want at Edgestow until the Government declares that a state of emergency exists there."
"Exactly," said Filostrato.  "It is folly to talk of peaceful revolutions...but until there is the disturbance, the firing, the barricades--no one gets powers to act effectively.  There is not enough what you call weight on the boat to steer him."

They took away my money, my family, and my security. Why couldn't they destroy my ideas? We will question them in court tomorrow as we trigger The Revolution of all revolutions!

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."

Inside the cage there is food
Not a lot, but some
Outside there are only
Vast expanses of liberty

Inside the cage there is food
Not a lot, but some
Outside there are only
Vast expanses of liberty

Life is beautiful, live it well! Now go powder your nose, and do something for the world!

To recall this is to remind people of what the Establishment would like them to forget -- the enormous capacity of apparently helpless people to resist, of apparently contented people to demand change.

Sheldrake’s concept of “formative causation” emphasizes the existence of “morphic fields” that unite entire species universally outside space-time. According to Sheldrake, these omnipresent resonance fields can actually be expressed biologically if correctly tuned into--for example, through DNA--even if a species is extinct. Some readers may also be familiar with the notion of “noosphere,” the name given by the great Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin to the field of mind and thought that encircles the planet and enables zeitgeist to happen: spontaneous transfer of ideas and technologies that suddenly seem to leap from consciousness to consciousness.

Spiritualution is the Solution.

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

We need a revolution in the West:  not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names.  We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change.

We are living in times with a unique potential and a rare mission - to give birth to the revolution.

For My Grandson

Your blood runs muddled,
My polyglot,
From Dutch and English
And Welsh and Scot;
But to honor you
In this year of shame,
We have named you DAVID
A Jewish name.
Upon your hand--
A scant inch long--
We lay the sense
Of your brother’s wrong.
To this frail case
Of gristle and skin
We trust the fortunes
of all your kin--
Your Negro brother,
Your brother the Jew--
Of all who suffer
From being few.

In cruel times
For a child to share
Your mother has dropped you
Well aware
That flesh must carry
The mind’s high stake,
Since the world we have
Is the world we make.

Let nothing rob you
Of discontent.
Your thin, first protest
Was early spent--
A cradle tempest,
Not loud, not long--
But your puny anger
Will yet be strong;
And we bid you nurse it,
While we nurse you,
To turn on Gentiles
Who hate the Jew,
On gentlemen
Who in pride of race
Would burn black problems
They dare not face.
Poor and lucky,
We can ill afford
A silver spoon
Or a silver cord;
But your name is David--
We bring you, instead,
One smooth flat stone
From the clean brook bed,
And with this for a birthright
May you, at length,
Have little of comfort
Much of strength,
We could wish you homeless
Under a ledge
With a mind that burns
Through the skull’s thin edge--
Better so,
In the steely rain,
Than plump and cozy
In belly and brain.

For there’s work to be done
And all’s not well.
The giants we fostered
Are yours to fell.
The peace we squandered
Is yours to win,
By anger flashed outward
And hate held in.
Let these be single
When each is great;
Anger blown clear
Of the coals of hate--
Keep hate for ideas,
Anger for men,
Now the fools of evil
Are loose again.
And when metals cancel
And wits lock fast
One smooth flat stone
Can win at the last,
Through fear and the will
To master fear
With the sling of David.

The giants are here.

"Reason is the only frontier left."

EXPECTATIONS ALWAYS TRAVEL AT HIGHER SPEEDS

A brief look into history reminds us of the time lines of the past. My lifelong experience has been that things we expect to happen always happen more slowly. With inventions, we continually underestimate the time span required from idea to their full realization. The new fields of biotechnology and nanotechnology will be evolving for all the years left in the twenty-first century.

It is the surprises that overwhelm us, such as AIDS and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. As with the human species and other manifestations of nature, almost all change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Things just take time--almost always more time than we expect.

The revolution begins at home. If you overthrow yourself again and
again, you might earn the right to help overthrow the rest of us.

"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man."