Quotes About Revolution

It was Lenin, not Stalin, who turned his utopian dream of a new Communist global order into a living nightmare.

Do not imagine, comrades, that I am simply looking for a revolutionary form of justice. We have no concern about justice at this hour! We are at war, on the front where the enemy is advancing, and the fight is to the death."3

Aquinas demonstrates how the laws of nature could unlock the mysteries of why and how human beings built communities, how and why they framed laws, and how they interacted with one another in society. His analysis of the role of natural law in politics would set off a revolution that had huge consequences for the future.

Why use two (or more) when one (or fewer) will do, is the principle that William of Ockham introduced into the medieval thought process. It grew out of his refinement of Aristotle's logic and set off a revolution not only in philosophy, but in politics and religion. Before he died, Ockham's razor would undercut the foundations of the medieval Church.

the Bolsheviks, less than 25 percent.

Marx's well-worn dictum that the capitalist will sell you the rope you use to hang him with.

In the long term, the print revolution turned out to be a boon for Aristotle. His works could be studied by more readers than ever, in cleaned-up versions.

More than any previous work, Galileo's Dialogue showed that if Copernicus wasn't right on every detail of the working of the solar system, Aristotle and Ptolemy were both very clearly wrong. The first printing sold out almost at once.

Marcuse's appeal to an emergency situation bears an uncomfortable resemblance to the justifications for Hitler's emergency decrees in 1933. The resemblance is no coincidence. Like his cultural pessimist counterparts on the German revolution on the Right, Marcuse impatiently awaited the emergence of a new cultural order out of the rubble of the old liberal capitalist West.

In a purely technical sense, Sens Cathedral is probably the first Gothic church. When Abelard and Bernard met there in the spring of 1140, they probably did not notice that an architectural revolution was taking place over their heads. Its builders pioneered many of the characteristic elements of the Gothic style, from ribbed interior vaults and a three-part elevation, to the famous pointed Gothic arch for its windows.

self-conscious principle: change as reform, rather than revolution.

The only thing that could save the revolution, Lenin wrote in 1913, would be a war between Austria and Russia. "But it's scarcely likely that Franz Josef and Nikolasha [Lenin's nickname for the czar he despised] would grant us this pleasure."41

former minister of the interior, Pyotr Durnovo. Dated February 1914, five months before Archduke Francis Ferdinand's assassination, it presciently warned of what might happen if Russia found itself dragged into a general war and lost. In that case, Durnovo wrote, "a social revolution in its most extreme form will be unavoidable for Russia.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

moja ojczyzna powstaje!... Wol? j? ogl?da? siedz?c?... [Pi?tnastoletni Arthur Rimbaud w li?cie do Georgesa Izambard z 25 sierpnia 1870]

What was I in the century past: I only find myself today. The vagabonds, the hazy wars are gone. The inferior race has swept over all - the People, as they put it, Reason; Nation and Science.

El 326 tenía por delante menos futuro que María Antonieta la mañana que le cortaron el pelo en la Conciergerie.

Se acerca la hora de que este siglo levante cadalsos y afile el cuchillo -concluye-. Y no hay mejor piedra de amolar cuchillos que la letra impresa.

Aun así, es interesante recordar lo que en los años setenta dijo al respecto un viejo comunista: Si hubiésemos ganado la guerra, a Companys también lo habríamos fusilado nosotros, por traidor a la República.

Tragedias heroicas que acaban en vodeviles grotescos, beneficiando a los de siempre. Pocos revolucionarios siguen siéndolo cuando alcanzan el poder.

De qué revolución me habla. Ésa se disuelve en traiciones y mentiras. Los ricos son los de antes; y los pobres, también. Se lo dice a usté uno que la hizo.

Si el primer intento golpista había venido de la derecha, con el golpe frustrado del general Sanjurjo, el segundo, más grave y sangriento, vino de la izquierda, y se llamó revolución de Asturias. En octubre de 1934, mientras en Cataluña el presidente Companys proclamaba un Estado catalán que fue disuelto con prudente habilidad por el general Batet (años más tarde fusilado por los franquistas, que no le perdonaron esa prudencia)

Obreros y campesinos con escopetas de caza y fusiles que no sabían usar mantuvieron media España para la República y murieron con verdadero heroísmo en la otra media.

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