#revolution

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief. ↗

— Frantz Fanon

#politics #psychology #revolution #ignorance

You don't expect me," he said, "to revolutionize society on this lawn?" Syme looked straight into his eyes and smiled sweetly. "No, I don't," he said; "but I suppose that if you were serious about your anarchism, that is exactly what you would do. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#revolutionize #society #anarchism

Useful as a war against France, undertaken by the Government against the will of the people would be for our revolutionary development, just so dangerous must be the effect upon our democratic development of a war supported by blind popular enthusiasm. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#blind #dangerous #democratic #development #effect

We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population. ↗

— Duong Van Minh

#avoid #bloodshed #ceremony #discuss #government

Christianity is in its nature revolutionary. ↗

— Walter Rauschenbusch

#nature #revolutionary

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds? ↗

— Robert Hughes

#artists #creativity #entertainment #revolution #art

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system. ↗

— Marie Lu

#freedom #inspirational-attitude #leadership #politics #revolution

92, '93, '94. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity or Death. ↗