#volution

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#business #foolish #grandeur #guerrilla #had

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

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention. ↗

— Lee Harvey Oswald

#free #hemisphere #idea #independent #individual

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

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next. ↗

— Jean Piaget

#day #evolution #finds #itself #knowledge

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#bringing #evolutionary #four #human #human nature

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#been #course #histories #history #individual

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#american revolution #branch #cincinnati #george #george washington