Interview with Mikhail Koltsov (July 1936), as quoted inThe Spanish Civil War (1994) by Hugh Thomas, p. 305
Context: It is possible that only a hundred of us will survive, but with that hundred we shall enter Saragossa, beat Fascism and proclaim libertarian communism. I will be the first to enter Saragossa; I will proclaim the free commune. We shall subordinate ourselves neither at Madrid nor Barcelona, neither to Azaña nor Companys. If they wish, they can live in peace with us; if not, we shall go to Madrid … We shall show you, bolsheviks, how to make a revolution.
“The Bolsheviks will do everything to secure this peaceful development of the revolution.”
Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
"The Russian Revolution And Civil War" (29 September 1917) http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/sep/29.htm; in Collected Works, Vol. 26, 1972, pp. 28-42. <br class="br">1910s
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
22 February 1908
India's Rebirth
Context: Whatever plans we may make, we shall find quite useless when the time for action comes. Revolutions are always full of surprises, and whoever thinks he can play chess with a revolution will soon find how terrible is the grasp of God and how insignificant the human reason before the whirlwind of His breath. That man only is likely to dominate the chances of a Revolution, who makes no plans but preserves his heart pure for the will of God to declare itself. The great rule of life is to have no schemes but one unalterable purpose. If the will is fixed on the purpose it sets itself to accomplish, then circumstances will suggest the right course; but the schemer finds himself always tripped up by the unexpected.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties
“We were witness to a revolution in fashion and a revolution in showing fashion as well.”
Christian Dior (1905–1957) French fashion designer
Carmel Snow of Harper’s Bazar office, in p. 135
Christian Dior: The Man who Made the World Look New
Hermann Rauschning (1887–1982) German politician
Source: The Revolution of Nihilism: Warning to the West (1939), p. 9
Jim Steinman (1947) American musician
"Faster Than The Speed Of Night" from the Bonnie Tyler album Faster Than The Speed of Night (1983)
Context: Let me show you how to drive me crazy,
Let me show you how to make me feel so good,
Let me show you how to take me to the edge of the stars and back again.
You've gotta show me how to drive you crazy,
You've gotta show me all the things you wanna happen to you,
We've gotta tell each other everything, we always wanted someone to do.
“How shall the Shown pretend to ken aught of the Showman or the Show?”
Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, lin…
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Context: How shall the Shown pretend to ken aught of the Showman or the Show?
Why meanly bargain to believe, which only means thou ne'er canst know?
How may the passing Now contain the standing Now — Eternity? —
An endless is without a was, the be and never the to-be?
David Horowitz (1939) Neoconservative activist, writer
from the 1969 book Empire and Revolution.
1960s
“Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!”
Erich Maria Remarque book The Night in Lisbon
Source: The Night in Lisbon
