Quotes of Gyration - somelinesforyou

“ Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice. ”

- Lee Harvey Oswald

“ Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ I have come to think of this humanist trend in psychology as a revolution in the truest, oldest sense of the word; the sense in which Galileo, Darwin, Einstein, Freud and Marx made revolutions, i.e. new ways of perceiving and thinking, new images of. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ You say you want a revolution, Well, you know, we all want to change the world... But when you talk about destruction, Don't you know that you can count me out. ”

- John Lennon

“ So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting. ”

- Sinclair Lewis

“ There is no final one; revolutions are infinite. ”

- Yevgeny Zamyatin

“ Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ 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. ”

- George Sand

“ History is a relay of revolutions. ”

- Saul Alinsky

“ Revolutions never go backwards. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ Revolutions are not made, they come. ”

- Wendell Phillips

“ The problem with the person who thinks he's a long-term investor and impervious to short-term gyrations is that the emotion of fear and pain will eventually make him sell badly. ”

- Robert Wibbelsman

“ It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it — just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same seashore. ”

- Albert Camus

“ Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but the human race grabbing for the emergency brake. ”

- Walter Benjamin
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