“In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than revolutions "for"... On the whole throughout this period the man--or party--that stood for doing the positive has usually cut a pathetic figure; well meaning but ineffectual, civilized but unrealistic, he was suspect alike to [by both] the ultras of destruction and the ultras of preservation and restoration.” MenWellsHas BeensWholePoliticalSocialPartyCuttingEconomicFiguresRevolutionPeriodsDestructionOur TimeSuspectsCivilizedSpheresPreservationPatheticRestorationUltras Book:Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New Source: Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New
“Though perhaps less universally known than such figures as Einstein or Gandhi (who became symbols of our time) Daisetz Suzuki was no less remarkable a man than these. And though his work may not have had such resounding and public effect, he contributed no little to the spiritual and intellectual revolution of our time.” MenMayLittlesSpiritualKnownEffectsFiguresRevolutionIntellectualSymbolsOur TimeRemarkable Author:D.T. Suzuki
“Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with the passage of the years, he looms up as one of the great moral figures of our time, an artist of such integrity and a revolutionary of such purity as to overshadow those who achieved fame and power. His failure was his success. I know of no participant in Russia's revolution and Spain's agonies who more deserves the attention of our concerned youth.” KnowsYearsArtistAttentionMoralFiguresMovementYouthRevolutionIntegrityFameDeserveConcernedDiedRussiaRevolutionaryOur TimePurityPassagesAgonySpainExileObscurityParticipantsMarxistSplinters Author:I. F. Stone
“The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long will it take the business to figure this out?” LongMediaFiguresRevolutionDiversityNewsOppositesIncreaseCredibilityNews MediaReadership Author:John Leo
“It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.” NeedsEndsSeemsFatherFiguresRevolutionPersonalityChineseCultFather Figure Author:John Lennon
“When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.” PeopleTryingYearsKidsLastsEnergyNumbersGoneDyingFiguresRevolutionSmartThirdsAverageIntensitySmart PeopleIndustrial RevolutionLife SpanAverage Life Author:Bill Gates
“In my book "Sound Unbound" we traced the guy who actually came up with the main concept for the graphic design of the record cover sleeve. His name is Alex Steinweiss. And one of the things in my book that we really tried to figure out was the revolution in graphic design that occurred when people put images on album covers.” PeopleBookGuyNamesSoundRecordsFiguresDesignRevolutionConceptsAlbumsGraphicAlexSleevesGraphic DesignUnboundAlbum Covers Author:DJ Spooky
“I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and that revolutions would happen globally and we would be a part of that and we would have then not capitalism. We would have values based on human lives, not profit. We would actually transform the kinds of ways people built love and built community. It was a very shocking thing to me, out of the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, to realize that that dream - while I still believed in it - was not going to happen in the way that I had hoped.” PeopleWayTryingHumansKindStillsEndsHardDreamHappensWould BeValuesRealizingCommunityFiguresRevolutionSucceedCapitalismBuiltProfitHuman LifeShocking80sI Still BelieveShocking Things Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“People were touchingly naive at the dawn of the Internet revolution when they said the Internet will route around censorship the way it routes around damage. With any revolution, the establishment catches up and figures out how to screw it up. The answer is to keep technology advancing fast enough so that those who would try to control it can't. It's up to people to defend what they care about. We shouldn't be complacent that this stuff is going to be a force for good.” PeopleWayTryingSaidEnoughCareForceStuffAnswersTechnologyFiguresRevolutionInternetDawnDamageEstablishmentCensorshipRoutesThey SaidScrewsNaiveAdvancingComplacentInternet Revolution Author:Paul Saffo
“In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.” PeopleIfsWorldRealCountryActionHumanityNationsPeaceCenturyFiguresMovementRevolutionMajorsExpectationsIndiaIndependenceAddSouthTeethTouchedReal WorldNonviolenceSouth AfricaAssertionThirteenUbuntuPhilippinesStaggering Author:Walter Wink