“The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.” StatesForceRevolutionMachinesAccomplishRevolutionary Book:The Greening of America Source: The Greening of America
“It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.” WorldMayRealityMightAbleLastsHumanityPoliticsSexProcessWomenDealsRaceHalfRevolutionBearsAimWaveAccomplishDesertSexismRetiringHarshSubordinationSexual RevolutionHarsh Reality Book:Sexual Politics Source: Sexual Politics
“We are expected, somehow, not to offend anyone on our way to liberation. There's an absurd expectation that the women's movement must be the first revolution in history to accomplish its goals without hurting anyone's feelings.” WayFirstsFeelingsGoalHurtMovementRevolutionExpectationsAccomplishExpectedAbsurdLiberation Author:Mary Blakely
“In thus sending out his trainees, [Jesus] set afoot a perpetual world revolution: one that is still in process and will continue until God's will is done on earth as it is in heaven.... He has chosen to accomplish this with and, in part, through his students.” WorldStillsDoneEarthJesusHeavenProcessStudentsRevolutionAccomplishGods WillChosenPerpetualTrainees Author:Dallas Willard
“[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.” RevolutionAccomplishRevolutionaryDivergence Author:Akbar Ganji
“No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.” HandsHumanityKnowingRevolutionAccomplishSandRebellious Book:The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable). Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).
“It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.” WayGivingRealityUniversePowerfulAcceptingSubjectsHumilityRevolutionToolsAbsolutesMethodAccomplishFearlessDeceptionPermanentMost PowerfulScientific MethodRevisionAbsolute TruthApproximation Author:Ann Druyan