#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

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. ↗

— Huey Newton

#revolution #revolutionary #you

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. ↗

— Huey Newton

#been #hands #inherit #revolution #young

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. ↗

— Huey Newton

#first #learn #lesson #man #must

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

#act #action #brought #men #revolutions

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 think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you've made a billion dollars, you've probably become uncool. ↗

— Sean Parker

#become #being #billion #cool #dollars

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy. ↗

— Sean Parker

#builds #bureaucracy #comes #inevitably #revolution

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#became #been #europeans #had #known