#volution

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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Furthermore, there is absolutely no contradiction between the separate organizations of revolutionary vanguard militants and their participation in the mass organizations of the working class. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#between #class #contradiction #furthermore #mass

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#make #really #revolution #socialist #trying

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. ↗

— George C. Marshall

#ever #find #his #known #man

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#individuality #inspirational #mask #personality #revolution

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. ↗

— Pierre Boulez

#dangerous #longer #revolutions

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

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But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#human-impact #industrial-revolution #death

There are no shortcuts in evolution. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#evolution #shortcuts

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. ↗

— James H. Breasted

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