#volution

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#establish #must #never #order #revolution

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies. ↗

— Paul Berg

#created #diseases #embargo #exists #many

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

#did #expect #i #revolution #said

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

We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. ↗

— David R. Brower

#applying #back #began #energy #environment

In Jefferson's mind great historical leaps forward were almost always the product of a purging, which freed societies from the accumulated debris of the past and thereby allowed the previously obstructed natural forces to flow forward into the future. Simplicity and austerity, not equality or individualism, were the messages of his inaugural march. It was a minimalist statement about a purging of excess and a recovery of essence. ↗

— Joseph J. Ellis

#thomas-jefferson #equality

We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#because #caught #era #revolution #talking

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#nowadays #really #revolution

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. ↗

— Karel Capek

#destroy #end #even #except #first