“Among all the many great transitions that have marked the evolution of Western civilisation ... there has been only one-the triumph of Christianity -that can be called in the fullest sense a "revolution": a truly massive and epochal revision of humanity's prevailing vision of reality, so pervasive in its influence and so vast in its consequences as to actually have created a new conception of the world, of history, of human nature, of time, and of the moral good.” WorldHumansHas BeensRealityHumanityMoralChristianityVisionInfluenceHuman NatureRevolutionEvolutionConsequenceWesternTriumphMassiveConceptionTransitionCivilisationPrevailingRevision Author:David Bentley Hart
“Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.” WorldHumansTogetherSuccessfulRevolutionOrganizationTransformationStructureDefinedWorking TogetherTransitionRepetitionSuccessful Organizations Author:Bill Drayton
“I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another. We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.” PeopleThinkingLooksLightTodayTermToo MuchRevolutionIndustryPostsTransitionHuntingAgricultureGatheringEpoch Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms of the state, you think of it in terms of Russia, the Soviet Union, and how those who struggled for power actually became victims of the state, prisoners of the state, and how that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We have to think of revolution much more in terms of transitions from one epoch to another. Talk about Paleolithic and Neolithic.” ThinkingLooksStatesTermRevolutionVictimUnionsRussiaPrisonerTransitionSovietSoviet UnionEpochDissolution Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution.” TwoStatesWaterRevolutionStressTransformationWorkersRateFollowingHeatLeapTransitionSteadyStableRapidsAccumulationPoint BreakSlow And Steady Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.” PeopleThinkingLooksTermToo MuchRevolutionTransition Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“It is a sad hardship and slavery to people who live in towns, that in their movements they know of one dimension only; they walk along the line as if they were led on a string. The transition from the line to the plane into the two dimensions, when you wander across a field or through a wood, is a splendid liberation to the slaves, like the French Revolution. But in the air you are taken into the full freedom of the three dimensions; after long ages of exile and dreams the homesick heart throws itself into the arms of space.” PeopleIfsKnowsHeartLongTwoDreamAgeThreeLinesSpaceWalksTakenAirMovementFieldsRevolutionArmsTownsSlaverySlaveWoodsWanderLiberationPlanesDimensionsStringsHardshipTransitionExileSplendidFrench RevolutionHomesickThree Dimensions Book:Out of Africa Source: Out of Africa
“I sympathize the first, the direct and single-minded attack [Red Revolution]. I believe it to have been necessary and inevitable in Russia. It may someday be inevitable in this country [United States of America]. I am not seriously alarmed by the sufferings of the creditor class, the troubles which the church is bound to encounter, the restrictions on certain kinds of freedom which must result, nor even by the bloodshed of the transition period. A better economic order is worth a little bloodshed.” FirstsBelieveKindMayLittlesHas BeensCountryStatesAmericaCertainSufferingOrderI BelieveChurchUnitedResultsClassUnited StatesTroubleEconomicCommunicationRevolutionPeriodsRedDirectBoundsRussiaInevitableEncountersSomedayTransitionUnited States Of AmericaRestrictionBloodshedCreditorsEconomic Order Author:Stuart Chase