#evolution

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#dinner party #doing #embroidery #essay #painting

I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

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Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#always #charming #classes #died #evolution

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#oppressed #revolution

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. ↗

— Germaine Greer

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It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. ↗

— David Harris

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But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically. ↗

— Marvin Harris

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True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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