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“Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.”

“If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.”

Ifs Should Revolution Should Have Misery Contrary Revolt

Book:House of All Nations

Source: House of All Nations

“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.”

“The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.”

Should Bigs Three Conditions Revolution Should Have Green South Focused South Africa Rice Wheat Green Revolution Maize

Author:Bill Gates

“After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order.”

Needs Should Different Problem Order Natural United Views Enemy Groups Revolution Solutions Should Have Reform Revolutionary Splits Dialectics Different Views Sorting Sorting Out

Author:John Lennon

“It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-one believed more than Father Gapon in the bond between Tsar and people.”

People Should Has Beens Father Revolution Should Have Ironic Regimes Should Have Been Fitting Organisation

Book:A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution

Source: A people's tragedy: a history of the Russian Revolution

“I don't think we replaced the Soviet Union with Al Qaida. I think we replaced, we should have, Soviet Union with the merger of globalization and the IT revolution. I think it's that. That is the real challenge that we face today. Unlike the Soviet Union, it has no face, it has no missiles, but it is something that challenges every job, every city and every community.”

Thinking Should Real Today Jobs Faces Community Challenges Cities Revolution Should Have Unions Als Soviet Replaced Soviet Union Globalization Missiles Mergers

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Because a girl should have long hair, she should have clean hair; because she should have clean hair, she should not have an unclean home; because she should not have an unclean home, she should have a free and leisured mother; because she should have a free mother, she should not have an usurious landlord; because there should not be a usurious landlord, there should be a redistribution of property; because there should be a redistribution of property, there shall be a revolution.”

Should Long Home Mother Girl Economic Hair Revolution Should Have Property Clean Landlord Long Hair

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton