#evolution

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. ↗

— George Orwell

#does #end #establish #makes #means

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

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#been #course #histories #history #individual

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#american revolution #branch #cincinnati #george #george washington

The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#corporations #did #doors #during #equal

I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next. ↗

— George A. Romero

#always #being #consuming #generation #i

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#duty #first #get #revolutionary

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot. ↗

— Judah Philip Benjamin

#effort #fire #gardener #human #human effort