 As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the people.
– John Adams (1735-1826) |
Tag Archives: revolution
Hannah Arendt – The revolutionary after the revolution
 It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution.
– Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) |
Abraham Lincoln – Growing weary of government
 This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
– Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) |
Isaiah Berlin – Do not live only by fighting evil
 Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance — these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
– Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) |
Maya Angelou – The sadness of the women’s movement
 The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
– Maya Angelou (1928-2014) |
