“The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and drugs. The one great difference is that by now the revolution has deprived the mass of consumers of any independent access to the staples of life: clothing, shelter, food, even water. Air access remains the only necessity that the average user can still get for himself, and the revolution has imposed a heavy tax on that by way of pollution. Commercial conquest is far more thorough and final than military defeat.” WayKindStillsWaterDifferencesTechnologyEconomyAirMilitaryRevolutionDrugTaxesWeaponsMassIndependentRemainsTradeFinalsDefeatAverageHeavyAccessConsumersClothingsUsersPollutionShelterConsumerismConquestItemsDeprivedNoveltyFurThoroughOrnamentsOverconsumptionStaples Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
“We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.” WarCertainPassionBornDifferencesCommonLandRevolutionGrewIdealsTraditionWideRealization Author:Vincent Massey
“Could it be argued that if the Chinese revolution seems to be a response to the needs of rural society, whereas the Russian is an urbanized phenomenon, this difference corresponds to that which exists between the users of two different forms of written communication, the one archaic, the other alphabetic?” IfsNeedsTwoDifferentSeemsFormDifferencesWrittenCommunicationRevolutionResponseChinesePhenomenonUsersChinese Revolution Author:Eric A. Havelock
“One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution.” PersonsDifferencesRevolutionMaking A Difference Author:Bryant H. McGill
“The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'” HumansWantedFacesDifferencesPartyRevolutionMembersSpringSocialismFormerCommunistVelvetCommunist PartyHuman FacesPrague Author:Adam Michnik
“Those who have read history with discrimination know the fallacy of those panegyrics and invectives which represent individuals as effecting great moral and intellectual revolutions, subverting established systems, and imprinting a new character on their age. The difference between one man and another is by no means so great as the superstitious crowd suppose.” KnowsMenMeanCharacterAgeIndividualDifferencesMoralGreatnessRevolutionIntellectualCrowdsDiscriminationOne ManFallacySuperstitiousImprinting Author:Thomas B. Macaulay