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“At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.”

Heart Political Lying Revolution Majors Upheaval

Book:Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In sex. In spiritual values. In opposition to wars no one wants. In opposition to government big-brotherhood. In civil rights. In basic human goals. They're all facets of a general upheaval.”

“Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.”

Art Helping Religious Revolution Terror Nationalism Immense Masterpiece Globalization Extremism Worldview Religious Extremism Industrial Revolution Upheaval Pandemics

Author:Martin Filler

“No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic agents, its yeast. But revolutions are made by fanatical men of action with one-track mind, geniuses in their ability to confine themselves to a limited field. They overturn the old order in a few hours or days, the whole upheaval takes a few weeks or at most years, but the fanatical spirit that inspired the upheavals is worshiped for decades thereafter, for centuries.”

Men Years Mind Made War Whole Action Spirit Order Hours Ability Growing Week Century Fields Revolution Genius Kings Inspired Track Decades Agents Grass Upheaval Single Man Yeast Grass Growing

Author:Boris Pasternak

“This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.”

Giving Social Born Situation Conditions Revolution Birth Genuine Massive Womb Upheaval Unendurable

Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“Here they are, all in one place. Circle back to them when you need some poetic shine. It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road to better days, but revelations, and lavishness of someone's soul inspired, and ablaze.”

Inspirational Needs Soul Clear Revolution Shining Inspired Circles Revelations Poetic Upheaval Better Days

Author:Boris Pasternak