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Revolutions are infinite. ↗


— Yevgeny Zamyatin


#revolution #social-change #change

Although China may be able to change the major power structure in the next ten years, it will be unable to shift the world from unipolarity to bipolarity unless it forms a formal alliance with Russia. ↗


— Wang Yizhou


#foreign-policy #russia #change

Women must show their public face. We must help to work out our own community problems. We must insist on having equal voices and equal responsibilities. . . In large part, success depends on changing minds at home, in the streets, and at the workplace - not just in legislatures and in the courts. Each and every one of us has and important role to play in completing that task. ↗


— Joan Biskupic


#voice #women #change

We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both in terms of intellectual roadblocks and in terms of economic and structural changes that make it harder to live by Scriptural principles. ↗


— Nancy Pearcey


#worldview #change

One day, I noticed that my father’s uniform had changed from a smart, light green colour with silver edging on the shoulder straps to a black uniform with SS markings and runes on the collar. I asked him why this was, and he told me that he was still a policeman, but now worked for the Schutzpolizei. ↗


— Alfred Nestor


#alfred-nestor #author-alfred-nestor #german-ss #hitler #hitler-s-germany

Rising expectation is a recipe for change ↗


— Raymond A. Ebanks


#change

Perhaps the Ci-ty dreamed of an-other, en-emy city, float-ing across the sea to invade the es-tuary . . . or of waves of darkness . . . waves of fire . . . Perhaps of being swallowed again, by the immense, the si-lent Mother Con-tinent? It's none of my business, city dreams. . . . But what if the Ci-ty were a growing neo-plasm, across the centuries, always chang-ing to meet exactly the chang-ing shape of its very worst, se-cret fears? ↗


— Thomas Pynchon


#megapolisomancy #war #business

She recalled him as a forceful and witty speaker with a ready repartee and a penetrating voice. He had once, for example, put down a spokesman for the pesticide industry with a remark that people still quoted at parties: "And I presume on the eighth day God called you and said, 'I changed my mind about insects! ↗


— John Brunner


#pesticides #pollution #change

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. ↗


— Edward Bond


#comes #containing #democracy #genes #ideas

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding. ↗


— Paulo Freire


#culture #education #politics #education






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