"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called..." - Quote by Victor Hugo
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions
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“Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.”
“Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.”
“Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.”
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“It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.”
“I'm not where I'm supposed to be,I'm not what I want to be,But I'm not what I used to be.I haven't learned how to arrive;I've just learned how to keep going”
“Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life.”
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“Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.”
“War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.”
“With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.”