“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions”
Source: Les Misérables
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Victor Hugo308
French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885Related quotes
“Passivity writhes in resistance to the progressive impulse of revolution.”
Práxedis Guerrero (1882–1910) Mexican journalist and anarchist revolutionary
La resistencia del pasivismo se revuelve ahora contra el impulso progresista de la revolución. <br class="br">Passivity and Rebellion (29 de Agosto 1909), Punto Rojo, N° 3, El Paso, Texas, translated by Javier Sethness-Castro. http://blackrosefed.org/i-am-action-praxedis-guerrero/
“The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.”
Russell Kirk (1918–1994) American political theorist and writer
The Roots of American Order (1974)
Eric Hobsbawm book The Age of Extremes
Source: The Age of Extremes (1992), Chapter Sixteen, End of Socialism
Jean-François Revel (1924–2006) French writer and philosopher
Without Marx or Jesus; the new American Revolution has begun https://archive.org/details/withoutmarxorjes00reverich (1971) quoted in The Aquarian Conspiracy, The Aquarian Conspiracy, by Marilyn Ferguson (1980) <br class="br">1970s
“Not all that we call progress is progress.”
Paul Harvey (1918–2009) American broadcaster
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David Smith (1906–1965) American visual artist (1906-1965)
quote, early 1950's
Source: 1950s, from 'Abstract Expressionism' (1990), p. 41
