#evolution

The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit. ↗

— The Invisible Committee

#french #revolt #revolution #anarchism

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember. ↗

— Alan Moore

#politics #revolution #anarchism

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#revolution #anarchism

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#revolution #anarchism

We have been expropriated from our own language by television, from our songs by reality TV contests, from our flesh by mass pornography, from our city by the police and from our friends by wage-labor. ↗

— The Invisible Committee

#french #revolt #revolution #anarchism

I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones. ↗

— George Orwell

#political-satire #quthoritarianism #russian-revolution #virtue

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#journalism #revolution #writing #journalist

There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification. ↗

— Charles-Edward A. Winslow

#chlorine #disinfection #drinking-water #public-health #the-chlorine-revolution

It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps to the door, whence they must come to fetch him, six and a half steps to the window, behind which night was falling. Soon it would be over. But when he asked himself, For what actually are you dying? he found no answer. It was a mistake in the system; perhaps it lay in the precept which until now he had held to be uncontestable, in whose name he had sacrificed others and was himself being sacrificed: in the precept, that the end justifies the means. It was this sentence which had killed the great fraternity of the Revolution and made them run amuck. What had he once written in his diary? "We have thrown overboard all conventions, our sole guiding principle is that of consequent logic; we are sailing without ethical ballast. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#politics #revolution #russia #soviet-union #communism

But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#sociology #sociology