#evolutions

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. ↗

— Karl Marx

#revolutions

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. ↗

— John Mortimer

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The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power. ↗

— Mohammed Morsi

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Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

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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

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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

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When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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

— Raymond Queneau

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