“Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug”
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971).
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The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
“When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.”
Act iv., Sc. 2.
The Rival Queens, or the Death of Alexander the Great (1677)
Source: The Tin Flute (1945), P.260
“The student is to read history actively not passively.”
Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays
1968 Liberal Party Leadership convention speech, April 5, 1968. ( http://ms.radio-canada.ca/archives_new/2006/en/wmv/turner19680405et1.wmv)
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
These are paraphrases of Muir's quote from My First Summer in the Sierra (1911) - the actual quote is listed above: "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." See Sierra Club explanation http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/misquotes.aspx.
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Variant: Tug on anything at all and you'll find it connected to everything else in the universe.
Variant: When we tug at a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world.
Studies in a Dying Culture (1938), Pacifism and Violence: A Study in Bourgeois Ethics
“Tug looked nervously at his master.
Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying.”
Source: Erak's Ransom