#revolution

Revolution begins with the self, in the self. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#revolution #self

. . . and what are you exactly, my friend? Their subordinate? Their employee? Or, I would suggest, their equal? That's what young Karl would certainly have said, and probably still does. Unless he's no longer alive.' Dodger gave Solomon and strange look and Solomon hastened to clarify. "'Mmmm, as I recall, if you go around telling people that they are downtrodden, you tend to make two separate enemies: the people who are doing the downtreading and have no intention of stopping, and the people who are downtrodden, but nevertheless -- people being who they are -- don't want to know. They can get quite nasty about it.' (205) ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#equality #rage-against-the-machine #revolution #equality

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life. ↗

— Martha Beck

#been #children #help #homes #industrial

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#cured #evils #fighting #goals #ignorance

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#activities #hearts #purpose #revolutions #sole

Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#governmental #governmental power #imagine #power #propagated

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#change #form #politics #revolution

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing. ↗

— Mike Tyson

#book #comes #david #did #every

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. ↗

— Albert Camus

#modern #power #reinforcement #revolutions #state

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. ↗

— Albert Camus

#claim #consent #give #ideologies #lead