#evolutions

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty. ↗

— Jung Chang

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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. ↗

— Georges Jacques Danton

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Revolutions are the locomotives of history. ↗

— Karl Marx

#revolutions

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

— Mohammed Morsi

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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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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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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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All revolutions devour their own children. ↗

— Ernst Rohm

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Revolutions are always verbose. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#revolutions

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

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