“The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.” HumansHuman BeingsRevolutionIllusionRevolutionarySaddest Author:Shirley Williams
“The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power of consecrating things and endowing them with a sort of eternity; museums are our temples, and the objects displayed in them are beyond history. Politics--or more precisely, Revolution--co-opted the other function of religion: changing human beings and society. Art was an asceticism, a spiritual heroism; Revolution was the construction of a universal church.” HumansArtSpiritualPoliticsBornChurchHuman BeingsChristianityObjectsRevolutionUniversalEternityFunctionRuinsTemplesMuseumsConstructionHeroismAsceticism Book:1904-1912 Source: 1904-1912
“This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.” WorldHumansSoulHuman BeingsRevolutionFleshRevolutionary Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world
“We need to undergo a very radical revolution in values. And we need to think about what it's like to have become so materialistic that we think having a good job, and consuming like crazy to compensate for the dehumanization of the job, is living like a human being.” ThinkingNeedsHumansJobsValuesHuman BeingsCrazyRevolutionRadicalGood JobConsumingMaterialisticDehumanization Author:Grace Lee Boggs