“The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right in themselves, but they are so because they come in the proper order. You cannot have equality without liberty, and you certainly cannot have fraternity without equality. The importance of this I learnt from music, because music evolves in time, and therefore the order inevitably determines the content.” IdeasOrderThreePowerfulLibertyRevolutionMusic IsConceptsImportanceDetermineEvolveFraternityFrench Revolution Author:Daniel Barenboim
“The digital revolution is forever. They put importance on that option as well. With Amazon, you're getting the best of both worlds, with a whole new playing field.” WorldWellsWholeForeverFieldsRevolutionImportanceDigitalAmazonPlaying FieldsBest Of Both WorldsDigital Revolution Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution.” CertainGrowingRevolutionActivityMassImportanceRaisedWaveExpectedReactionsOctoberDisillusionmentInevitabilityFactionsVanguardOctober Revolution Author:Leon Trotsky
“I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to be able to do the kind of things that people of faith did 40 years ago in the heat of the civil rights revolution. This is a moral issue of every bit as much importance requiring every bit as much sacrifice, courage, and energy as that crisis did.” PeopleThinkingNeedsYearsKindAbleActionPoliticalEnergyBitsMoralIssuesRightsSacrificeRevolutionYears AgoImportanceCrisisCivil RightsHeatUnconventionalMoral IssuesPolitical Action Author:Bill McKibben
“[John] Adams's letters reveal his persistence and determination to win over the Dutch against all odds and to convince them and the other peoples of Europe of the potential greatness of the United States and of the importance of the Revolution to the world.” WorldStatesWinningUnitedUnited StatesGreatnessRevolutionEuropeDeterminationLettersImportancePersistenceConvinceOddsDutchAgainst All Odds Author:Gordon S. Wood
“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