#evolutions

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

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And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

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During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. ↗

— Pierre Boulez

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At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. ↗

— Georges Jacques Danton

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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. ↗

— Georges Jacques Danton

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It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game. ↗

— Courtney Love

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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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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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