When you no longer care what the world thinks about you, then only you can rebel, and to rebel is the only way to born again.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...
...I stayed up all night reading [The Structure of Scientific Revolutions] with demented avidity to the final page, my empirical understanding of the world undone by Kuhn's argument that scientific theories are in essence evolutionarily selected stories, that is fictions that best fit the available factsβuntil the discovery of new facts forces a paradigm shift to a different and better fiction. More than that, he argues that scientist who embrace a new paradigm at an early stageβbefore sufficient evidence has been amassed to trigger a scientific revolutionβdo so not out of a sober consideration of the available facts, or at least not only that, but also with a subjective, irrational, from-the-gut leap of faith.
The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?
Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would perhaps come in the upheaval of a revolution. But he argued that revolutionary propaganda was a delicate work of high conscience. It was the education of the masters of the world. It should be as careful as the education given to kings.
A veces estamos demasiado dispuestos a creer que el presente es el ΓΊnico estado posible de las cosas.
When young people's education is at stake, compromise is crime.
Revolutions are defined not only by the ideas that drive them but by the scale of their impact.
In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and intuited how to vary their properties according to their structural and environmental characteristics.
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
The right of revolution, which tyrants, in mockery, accord to mankind, is no legal right under a government; it is only a natural right to overturn a government.
Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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.
Though I am not a chief of state, I must work twice as hard as one because I have to both administer a bureaucracy and run a revolution.
By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.