“New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid.” GivingWritingMatterUseSeemsAgeEarthFoundLanguageUnderstandingSunFireRevolutionPerspectiveBirthCirclesDramaticWheelsFlatsHumankindHistoricNew Perspective Book:The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s Source: The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s
“We are challenged to develop a world perspective. No individual can live alone, no nation can live alone, and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one.” WorldFeelsIndividualNationsSleepRevolutionPerspectiveEnvironmentalSustainability Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes up. When the classic religions decayed, communistic agitation rose in Athens (430 B.C.), and revolution began in Rome (133 B.C.); when these movements failed, resurrection faiths succeeded, culminating in Christianity; when, in our eighteenth century, Christian belief weakened, communism reappeared. In this perspective the future of religion is secure.” WellsChristianReligionBeliefHeavenChristianityCenturyMovementRevolutionPerspectiveRoseCome UpSecureCommunismClassicRomeResurrectionUtopiaBucketsAgitationAthens Author:Will Durant
“For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule.” IfsWorldYearsLongHas BeensAmericaTermHalfEconomicRevolutionPerspectiveEuropeIndiaChinaGoldenLong TermExceptionDominanceNorth AmericaOutputIndustrial RevolutionChina And IndiaGolden Years Author:Paul Achleitner
“Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.” SuccessfulRevolutionPerspectiveRevoltNew Perspective Author:Andre Malraux
“And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.” BelieveI BelieveRevolutionPerspective Author:Terence McKenna
“One of the problems with traditional anti-capitalist thought is that it defines capitalism as a totality, which encourages us to imagine another totality, socialism, which we can try to replace it with. This totalizing perspective has colonized the imagination of anti-capitalism and left us waiting for a revolution we can never have.” TryingProblemLeftWaitingImaginationImagineRevolutionPerspectiveCapitalismSocialismTraditionalCapitalistTotality Author:Cynthia Kauffman
“I'm working on a novel about a girl who grows up in the circus and her relationship with her father, who grew up in Hungary when it was under Soviet control and left during the 1956 revolution. It is told from both of their perspectives, and has been a joy (and very frustrating) to research and write. Needless to say, I am very excited about my next project!” WritingHas BeensJoyGirlNextFatherLeftGrowsNovelGrowing UpRevolutionPerspectiveGrewProjectsGrew UpResearchExcitedSovietFrustratingCircusHungary Author:Liza Campbell