#revolutions

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority. ↗

— Hu Shih

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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. ↗

— Aristotle

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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#lying #make #pick #power #revolutionaries

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#doubt #fundamental #half #half century #last

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. ↗

— George Farquhar

#fortunes #get #government #heads #hearts

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it. ↗

— David Chalmers

#before #bottom #consciousness #few #fundamentally

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present. ↗

— Scott Cook

#already #because #even #greatest #made

Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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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. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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