#revolution

The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#battle #chance #crisis #game #life

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#generate #humor #impossible #irony #little

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians. ↗

— Robert Trout

#american #american revolution #battle #english #fact

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#redefining #revolution #scientific #socialism #terms

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#artists #asking #emotional #got #hear

The seed of revolution is repression. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#revolution #seed

Reform is China's second revolution. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#reform #revolution #second

It's the least that someone can do, someone like me that owes so much to this people and to the revolution: study hard, but more than that, defend them under any circumstance. ↗

— Elian Gonzalez

#circumstance #defend #hard #least #like

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#after #another #arrogance #centrality #common

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist. ↗

— Juan Goytisolo

#bureaucratic #capitalism #caste #collective #created