“The wine-shops breed, in physical atmosphere of malaria and a moral pestilence of envy and vengeance, the men of crime and revolution.” MenMoralCrimeHe ManRevolutionWineEnvyAtmosphereShopsVengeanceMalariaPestilence Book:Household Words Source: Household Words
“The men who were running the church in the late '60s and '70s panicked when they saw the chaos, which developed after the council. The relatively modest changes of those years thawed the ice in which Catholicism had been frozen since the French Revolution.” MenYearsRunningChurchSawsHe ManRevolutionLateChaosIceCatholicismModestFrozenCouncilFrench Revolution Author:Andrew Greeley
“If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.” IfsMenShouldWarEndsCountryWould BeEnemyHe ManRevolutionIndiaChinaEsteemBeatenEnglishmen Author:Napoleon Bonaparte
“"There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.” ThinkingMenWorldHandsNew YorkHe ManRevolutionPoliticianQuietMereUselessScholarNew York TimesPuppetsBusiness World Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“In short I must confide in you to take such care of the men under you as an economical householder would of his own family, doingevery thing within himself as far as he can, and calling for as few supplies as possible. The less you depend for supplies from this quarter, the less you will be disappointed.” MenCareHe ManRevolutionDependsCallingDisappointedQuartersSuppliesAmerican Revolution Author:Thomas Jefferson
“If you're creating a slave situation, you would almost never bring women. And if we look at Slavery for example, we look at the Greeks and the Romans, right? It was always men. They never brought any women. Because women carry the seeds of the revolution, right? And if you have the men by themselves, then you can do what the French did with the Blackfeet, which is breed them out.” IfsMenLooksCan DoSituationExampleHe ManRevolutionCreatingSlaverySlaveSeedsGreek Author:Nikki Giovanni
“I want people to see that all-important time in a different way-in the way it was. For of a number of reasons, including the absence of photographs, we tend to see the men and women of the Revolution as not quite real. And we have far too little sense of what they suffered.” PeopleMenWayWantLittlesImportantDifferentRealReasonNumbersHe ManRevolutionMen And WomenIncludingPhotographAbsenceDifferent Ways Author:David McCullough
“Unlike the people you see in Mathew Brady's photographs from the Civil War, the men and women of the Revolution seem more like characters in a costume pageant. And it's a pageant in which the performers are all handsome as stage actors, with uniforms and dress that are always costume perfect.” PeopleMenWarCharacterSeemsActorsPerfectStageHe ManRevolutionMen And WomenDressesPhotographCivil WarPerformersUniformsCostumesHandsomePageantBradyStage Actors Author:David McCullough
“I think what we need to do is to step back as a society and say okay, we've kind of turned things upside-down. We have moved away from the nuclear family, in which the man always works and the woman stays home. How are we going to rearrange things now? We've done the first part of the revolution, we've turned everything on its head, but we haven't figured out what structures will actually work in this new world.” ThinkingMenWorldNeedsFirstsKindDoneHomeStepsHavensHe ManRevolutionOkayMovedStructureNuclearNew WorldUpside DownNuclear FamiliesThings Upside Down Author:Debora Spar
“I thought it was interesting to see that Israel did not play a role in this revolution. The man on Cairo's Tahrir Square doesn't want anything from me, but he does want something from his government. That's a good sign.” MenWantDoePlayGovernmentInterestingRolesHe ManRevolutionIsraelSquaresWant SomethingCairoTahrir Square Author:Tom Segev
“The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life” MenCountryAgeCommonHe ManDutyRevolutionOur CountryOperationsDeitiesAmerican Revolution Book:Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries Source: Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries
“Many who later lost faith in Fidel Castro can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban revolution.” MenRememberLostHe ManRevolutionNeededDozenCubanCastroLost FaithCuban Revolution Author:Tom Gjelten
“Two hundred years ago, we were all busy farming and we all had a role to play. The home was a unit of production. We made food and all the things we needed, we took care of our kids and were connected to purpose in our evolution. When the Industrial Revolution came along, it took away a lot of the work the men had done.” MenYearsMadeTwoDonePlayHomeCareKidsPurposeRolesHe ManRevolutionEvolutionNeededHundredYears AgoBusyProductionsConnectedUnitsFarmingIndustrial Revolution Author:Peter Buffett