“We have to have a revolution so that all young people grasp empathy and practice it. This is the most fundamental revolution that we have to get through.” PeopleYoungPracticeRevolutionEmpathyFundamentals Author:Bill Drayton
“The misfortune of others is our misfortune. Our happiness is the happiness of others. To see ourselves in others and feel an inner oneness and sense of unity with them represents a fundamental revolution in the way we view and live our lives. Therefore, discriminating against another person is the same as discriminating against oneself. When we hurt another, we are hurting ourselves. And when we respect others, we respect and elevate our own lives as well.” WayFeelsWellsPersonsHurtViewsOur LivesRevolutionFundamentalsUnityOneselfOnenessMisfortunesRespecting OthersMisfortunes Of Others Author:Daisaku Ikeda
“the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.” SidesKindnessRevolutionTreatsFundamentalsOneselfNeighborSurprisingBoth SidesMaximsSurprising Things Book:the zodiac arch Source: the zodiac arch
“I have never understood why they tried to start the revolution by taking over the universities. It should have been self-evident that the net result of success would be to close the universities but leave the nation unaffected--at least, for quite a long time. Nor do I find it easy to believe that the rebels, as intelligent as most of them were, seriously expected that they could keep the universities alive as corporate bodies, once they had control of them, if they made the fundamental alterations in organization and role that they proposed to.” IfsShouldBelieveLongHas BeensMadeSelfBodyWould BeNationsEasyResultsRolesAliveRevolutionLong TimeUnderstoodShould HaveOrganizationIntelligentFundamentalsUniversityExpectedCorporateRebelEvidentShould Have BeenAlterations Author:Muriel Beadle
“If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because you think it's somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.” PeopleIfsThinkingMeanMoralPolicyRevolutionFundamentalsReformStabilityConformFavourRegression Author:Noam Chomsky
“The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution of character which proceeds by changing people from the inside through ongoing personal relationship to God in Christ and to one another. It is one that changes their ideas, beliefs, feelings, and habits of choice, as well as their bodily tendencies and social relations. It penetrates to the deepest layer of their soul. External, social arrangements may be used to this end, but they are not the end, nor are they a fundamental part of the means” PeopleFirstsHumansWellsHeartMayMeanIdeasSoulEndsCharacterFeelingsUsedSpiritChoicesJesusBeliefSocialChristRevolutionHabitRelationFundamentalsTendenciesLayersArrangementsHuman HeartOngoingPenetratePersonal RelationshipsSocial Relations Author:Dallas Willard
“Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution." In the course of a single year Stalin ascribed to [Vladimir] Lenin two directly opposed conceptions of the fundamental question of socialism. The first version represents the real tradition of the party; the second took shape in Stalin's mind only after the death of Lenin, in the course of the struggle against "Trotskyism".” YearsMindFirstsTwoRealCoursesPartyStruggleRevolutionShapesTraditionFundamentalsSocialismVersionsFeaturesCharacteristicsConceptionProclamation Author:Leon Trotsky
“Chairman Mao's greatest contribution was that he applied the principles of Marxism-Leninism to the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution, pointing the way to victory. It should be said that before the sixties or the late fifties many of his ideas brought us victories, and the fundamental principles he advanced were quite correct.” WayShouldSaidIdeasPrinciplesPracticeRevolutionVictoryLateFundamentalsChineseContributionConcreteSixtyPointingMarxismChairmanMaoFundamental PrinciplesChairman MaoMarxism LeninismChinese Revolution Author:Deng Xiaoping
“King's response to our crisis can be put in one word: revolution. A revolution in our priorities, a reevaluation of our values, a reinvigoration of our public life and a fundamental transformation of our way of thinking and living that promotes a transfer of power from oligarchs and plutocrats to everyday people and ordinary citizens.” PeopleThinkingWayValuesRevolutionKingsCitizensOrdinaryTransformationCrisisFundamentalsResponseEverydayPrioritiesOne WordWay Of ThinkingPublic LifeTransfersOrdinary Citizens Author:Cornel West
“Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.” WellsLibertyConditionsDangerousRevolutionWeaknessTransformationFundamentalsDemocraticPopulationImperfectionSteadyDeceivingPassiveIgnoredImprovingPersistentConstructiveDemocratic SocietyCitizenryUnsuspectingGradualism Book:Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America Source: Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America