"It is the quality of revolutions not..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.
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“Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.”
“When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.”
“I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.”
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“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.”
“Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one.”
“We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.”
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“The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.”
“Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.”
“Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!”