#revolution

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#art #cause #classes #detached #fact

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#dinner party #doing #embroidery #essay #painting

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large. ↗

— William Hamilton

#country #easily #evolve #institutions #large

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man. ↗

— David Harris

#decent man #just #man #proclaim #revolutionary

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically. ↗

— Marvin Harris

#good #industrial #industrial revolution #introduction #nutritionally

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#awesome responsibility #because #children #create #depends

There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#happening #i #i think #into #netflix

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#country #depths #enactment #gamble #going

We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#around #cause #change #ground #other

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#i #only #probably #referred #revolutionary