#volution

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#gloves #make #revolution #silk #you

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#century #destroy #dream #every #family

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#before #combining #come #existed #exists

But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#concepts #constitutes #control #dangerous #first

From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change. ↗

— David Suzuki

#change #changes #environmental #evolutionary #explosive

Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates? ↗

— David Suzuki

#climb #continue #costs #enable #evolution

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. ↗

— John Acton

#being #constitution #country #democracy #democratic

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#dint #direction #done #give #made

Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#america #army #been #big #chunk

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#decisions #economic #financial #germany #had