#revolution

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#cannot #change #enough #fabric #quickly

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#brought #century #conceded #creating #demand

I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next. ↗

— George A. Romero

#always #being #consuming #generation #i

I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it. ↗

— Henry A. Wise

#authority #civil #civil liberty #conflict #defend

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue. ↗

— Robin G. Collingwood

#god #i #i can #issue #like

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#century #eighteenth #eighteenth century #end #revolution

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#our #realize #revolutionary #sense #should

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts. ↗

— Dario Fo

#homeland #law #liberty #our #revolution

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#movement #revolutionary #theory #without