“For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate. But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power....When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.” ChildrenEndsStatesGovernmentSpiritFoundChurchInfluenceModernCenturyTheoryOppositesFunctionClaimsRevolutionaryRemoveEducateSovereignBehalfContradictoryChurch And StateAbsolutism Author:Lord Acton
“Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.” WorldWarChoicesFateModernShapesRevolutionaryEmpiresContinentsRemindersModern WorldRevolutionary WarFree ChoiceDefying Author:George Will
“The literature of the immediate future will inevitably turn away from painting, whether respectably realistic or modern, and from daily life, whether old or the very latest and revolutionary, and turn to artistically realized philosophy.” InspirationalArtPhilosophyTurnsLiteratureModernPaintingRevolutionaryDaily LifeRealistic Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin
“A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.” PoliticalPoliticsGroupsModernTelevisionRevolutionaryStationsHippie Author:Abbie Hoffman