#vol

Its better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. ↗

— Emiliano Zapata

#revolution #revolution

There is neither a foreign war nor a civil war; there is only just and unjust war. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#war #revolution

The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come! ↗

— Patrick Henry

#elections

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#rebel #rebellion #revolution #revolution

Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He wore a loose shirt, cobalt blue, unbuttoned at the top, showing a prominent, knobby collarbone. He looked…complicated and hungry. She’d captured him focused intensely on a book, his face pressed against a wall like he was resting. Or waiting. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#artist #breakups #college #creativity #dating

There can be no doubt that the development of a practical method of water disinfection during the last two years marks an epoch in the art of water purification. ↗

— Charles-Edward A. Winslow

#chlorine #disinfection #drinking-water #public-health #the-chlorine-revolution

The new world is as yet behind the veil of destiny In my eyes, however its dawn has been unveiled ↗

— Allama Muhammad Iqbal

#future #iqbal #poetry #revolution #visions

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE ↗

— George Orwell

#orwell #russian-revolution #satire #satire

What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#being #desire #evolution #human #yearning

But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#conclusion-before-evidence #darwinism #evolution #fossil-record #fossils