“It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.” PeopleSometimesDifficultStruggleConditionsBrokenRevolutionMassDirectRevolutionaryMotiveJoiningVogueCarried Away Author:Vladimir Lenin
“You can understand Tunisia revolution as a failure to censor the internet. And Libya had that failure too. It's very difficult for governments that are autocratic and don't have broad popular support to be in power when a lot of people have these devices. That was what Arab Spring was about, that people could express this and lead to revolution.” PeopleGovernmentDifficultSupportRevolutionInternetSpringDevicesBroadsLibyaArab SpringTunisia Author:Eric Schmidt
“Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.” ChildrenHas BeensRealPhilosophySchoolTogetherDifficultPsychologyRevolutionGraduatesGraduate SchoolDevelopmentalScientific Revolution Author:Alison Gopnik