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“"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.”

Thinking Men World Hands New York He Man Revolution Politician Quiet Mere Useless Scholar New York Times Puppets Business World

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".”

Christianity Revolution Mere Episodes Renaissance Reformation Christendom Scientific Revolution

Book:The Origins of Modern Science

Source: The Origins of Modern Science

“The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.”

Men Political Lost Social Moral Revolution Mere Usefulness Political Revolution

Book:Les Belles Images

Source: Les Belles Images

“Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity. The evil all arose from the fact that he had increased his needs rather than limited them; . . . As long as fresh needs continued to be created, so new frustrations would come into being. When had the decline begun? The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution - not a social or political revolution - only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.”

Source: Les Belles Images

“We said that each time a country is liberated it is a defeat for the world imperialist system. But we must agree that the break is not achieved by the mere act of proclaiming independence or winning an armed victory in a revolution. It is achieved when imperialist economic domination over a people is brought to an end.”

People World Real Ends Country Winning Economic Revolution Victory Agree Independence Mere Defeat Liberation Domination Proclaiming Breaking Away

Author:Che Guevara

“It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other countries.”

Country Existence Revolution Victory Capable Unions Mere Soviet Other Countries Soviet Union

Author:Leon Trotsky

“My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one of the reasons why I feel certain that of all my inventions, the Magnifying Transmitter will prove most important and valuable to future generations. I am prompted to this prediction not so much by thoughts of the commercial and industrial revolution which it will surely bring about, but of the humanitarian consequences of the many achievements it makes possible. Considerations of mere utility weigh little in the balance against the higher benefits of civilization.”

Source: My Inventions: [Illustrated & Biography Added]

“The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.”

Revolution Higher Mere Wander Rebellion Lawlessness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.”

Ifs Should Might Force Views Numbers Liberty Moral Written Revolution Majority Mere Point Of View Libertarian Minorities Justify Libertarianism

Author:Abraham Lincoln