#revolution

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#been #called #handled #human #human race

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#dictatorship #fact #revolution #right

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#consistent #history #revolutionary #sade

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#becomes #eat #food #real #revolutionary

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#individuality #inspirational #mask #personality #revolution

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#found #idea #revolution #which

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. ↗

— Pierre Boulez

#dangerous #longer #revolutions

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

#did #expect #i #revolution #said

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#human-impact #industrial-revolution #death

We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. ↗

— David R. Brower

#applying #back #began #energy #environment