#revolution

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#history #only #proletariat #revolution #school

Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

#marxism #must #new #revelations #revolutionary

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid. ↗

— Kelly Lynch

#amazing #change #i #industrial #industrial revolution

There is nothing your knife handlers can do in the way of rioting and demonstrating that will have any permanent effect as long as, in the extremity, there is an army equipped with kinetic, chemical, and neurological weapons that is willing to use them against your people. You can get all the downtrodden and even all the respectables on your side, but you must somehow win over the security forces and the Imperial army or at least seriously weaken their loyalty to the rulers. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#revolution #respect

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. ↗

— Bryan Magee

#brought #history #i #i think #important

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#history #individuals #most #periods #revolutions

I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done. ↗

— Peter Mayhew

#done #entire #i #i think #industry

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America. ↗

— David McCullough

#also #america #army #book #century

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#anyone #makes #plans #reactionary #revolution

To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#day #despair #discover #discovered #every