#evolution

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#i #implementation #revolution #rules #struggling

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#business #foolish #grandeur #guerrilla #had

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention. ↗

— Lee Harvey Oswald

#free #hemisphere #idea #independent #individual

I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool. ↗

— Sean Parker

#become #being #billion #cool #dollars

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy. ↗

— Sean Parker

#builds #bureaucracy #comes #inevitably #revolution

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#became #been #europeans #had #known

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic. ↗

— Ron Paul

#believe #changes #come #first #going

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#continue #die #hearts #revolution #spirit

Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#consider #essay #fact #gospel #merit