“If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.” IfsMenBelieveHumansWellsMayDoneProgressConditionsRevolutionTraditionHuman Condition Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
“Before Kuhn, most scientists followed the place-a-stone-in-the-bright-temple-of-knowledge tradition, and would have told you that they hoped, above all, to lay many of the bricks, perhaps even the keystone, of truth's temple. Now most scientists of vision hope to foment revolution. We are, therefore, awash in revolutions, most self-proclaimed.” SelfVisionRevolutionTraditionStonesScientistLaysTemplesBricksKeystones Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.” WarCertainPassionBornDifferencesCommonLandRevolutionGrewIdealsTraditionWideRealization Author:Vincent Massey
“You've got to reach towards a better language, and you're not going to make it up from scratch; you've got to reach back into the tradition. Western tradition is not as impoverished as a lot of people would like to think, but you'd have to go back before the industrial revolution; you may have to go back farther than that. Of course, the Bible has a perfectly adequate language, but it's suffered a lot of thoughtless wear.” PeopleThinkingMayCoursesLanguageRevolutionTraditionWesternAdequateScratchesIndustrial Revolution Book:Conversations with Wendell Berry Source: Conversations with Wendell Berry
“Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.” MoralRevolutionCallingIntellectualTraditionErrorsCorruptionDoctrineCustomsAbsurdity Author:Ameen Rihani
“Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.” CountryStatesMotherUnitedResultsPowerfulUnited StatesDemocracyProductsRevolutionTraditionConstitutionInstitutionsDemocraticFavorsReactionsOppositionConstitution Of The United StatesMother Country Author:Lord Acton
“The final goal of world revolution is not socialism, or even communism, it is not a change in the present economic system, it is not the destruction of civilization in a material sense. The revolution desired by the leaders is moral and spiritual, it is an anarchy of ideas in which all the bases established nineteen centuries ago shall be overthrown, all the honored traditions trodden under foot, and, above all, the Christian ideal finally obliterated.” WorldIdeasChristianSpiritualGoalLeaderMoralFeetEconomicCenturyMaterialsRevolutionCivilizationIdealsTraditionDestructionBasesFinalsJewSocialismCommunismAnarchyHonoredEconomic SystemsNineteen Author:Leon V. DePoncins
“Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution." In the course of a single year Stalin ascribed to [Vladimir] Lenin two directly opposed conceptions of the fundamental question of socialism. The first version represents the real tradition of the party; the second took shape in Stalin's mind only after the death of Lenin, in the course of the struggle against "Trotskyism".” YearsMindFirstsTwoRealCoursesPartyStruggleRevolutionShapesTraditionFundamentalsSocialismVersionsFeaturesCharacteristicsConceptionProclamation Author:Leon Trotsky
“How very important it is to bring about in the human mind the radical revolution. The crisis is a crisis in consciousness, a crisis that cannot anymore accept the old norms, the old patterns, the ancient traditions. Considering what the world is now with all the misery, conflict, destructive brutality, aggression and so on... man is still as he was, is still brutal, violent, aggressive, acquisitive, competitive and has built a society along these lines.” MenWorldMindHumansStillsImportantCommunityLinesConsciousnessAcceptingSocietyRevolutionConflictBuiltTraditionCrisisMiseryAncientPatternsViolentRadicalDestructiveHuman MindAggressiveAggressionBrutalConsideringNormBrutalityZeitgeist Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti