“The quintessential revolution is that of the spirit, born of an intellectual conviction of the need for change in those mental attitudes and values which shape the course of a nation's development. A revolution which aims merely at changing official policies and institutions with a view to an improvement in material conditions has little chance of genuine success. Without a revolution of the spirit, the forces which produced the iniquities of the old order would continue to be operative, posing a constant threat to the process of reform and regeneration.” NeedsLittlesSpiritValuesOrderCoursesForceNationsProcessBornChanceViewsAttitudeConditionsPolicyMaterialsRevolutionDevelopmentShapesIntellectualAimInstitutionsConstantThreatConvictionImprovementGenuineReformOfficialsNeed A ChangeMental AttitudeRegenerationIniquityPosingQuintessential Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.” HumansImportantScienceReligionCommonAtheismHumilityRevolutionConvictionFeaturesArroganceCosmosPedestalScientific Revolution Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed the courage to dare to maintain them.” PeopleLibertyRightsRevolutionMassIndependentDareConvictionMaturePossessedLoving GodAmerican Revolution Author:Calvin Coolidge
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.” ArtFormDesireChurchReligiousViewsCreativeSacrificeBloodRevolutionCrossesInstrumentsConvictionBelieverAcceptedSymbolsDefinedTortureWorks Of ArtRitualPeculiarSermonsMonumentDenominationsInscriptionsBlood Sacrifice Author:George Bernard Shaw
“It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.” MenFirstsMayReasonMomentsHappensTruthMoralOpinionPrinciplesRevolutionFinalsObviousConvictionConvincedExpectedEvery ManEstablishmentMoral Principles Book:Dissertation on First-principles of Government Source: Dissertation on First-principles of Government
“Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.” HumansSelfCommonRevolutionEvolutionImportanceConvictionFeaturesArroganceIronicPedestalSelf-importanceHistory Of Science Author:Stephen Jay Gould