Zitat des Tages über Revolutionen / Revolutions:
The incorrect supposition that we live in a world of scarce resources has done more than preclude most individuals from achieving economic success. Over the centuries, this zero-sum-game view of the world has been responsible for wars, revolutions, political strategies, and human suffering of unfathomable proportions.
I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all violent convulsions in the affairs of men.
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
Revolutions go not backward.
The World Wide Web went from zero to millions of web pages in a few years. Many revolutions look irrelevant just before they change everything swiftly.
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.
Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.
Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
Revolutions are not made for export.
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.
We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy.
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now, the revolutions are called under the medium which is most used. You have Facebook revolutions, Twitter revolutions. The content doesn't matter anymore - the problem is the media.
The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were ignored, always provided an unconscious driving force of passion and aggressive self-assertion.
Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary.
And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
Revolutions are always verbose.
Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.
But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of the ancient strata and to the ebbing of the sea after the formations of new layers.
Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
All revolutions devour their own children.
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.