Pastoral Resources

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke.

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

The seed of revolution is repression.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and sir, by no legislation, by no partisan success, by no revolution, by no military power, can you wipe out this distinction.

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.