#evolutions

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. ↗

— Georges Jacques Danton

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Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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

— John Mortimer

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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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No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. ↗

— George Sand

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Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

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Revolutions are born of hope. ↗

— Crane Brinton

#hope #revolutions

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge. ↗

— Francesco Guicciardini

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