1790s, First Principles of Government (1795)
Context: It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.
“The migratory movement is at once perpetual, partial and universal. It never ceases, it affects every people … [and although] at a given moment it sets in motion only a small number of each population … in fact there is never a moment of immobility for any people, because no migration remains isolated.”
Source: Europe on the Move: War and Population Changes, 1917-1947, 1948, p. 9 as cited in: Sarah Collinson (1999) Globalisation and the dynamics of international migration implications for the refugee regime http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4ff59b852.pdf. May 1999. p. 1
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Eugene M. Kulischer 11
American sociologist 1881–1956Related quotes
“An unarmed people are slaves or are subject to slavery at any given moment.”
"In Defense of Self-Defense" (20 June 1967)
Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (1968), The Human Rights Movement (1969-1979)
“Not the intense moment
Isolated, with no before and after,
But a lifetime burning in every moment.”
Source: Living systems, 1978, p. 22; As cited in: Egolfs Voldemars Bakuzis (1974) Foundations of Forest Ecosystems: Concepts of systems in general. p. 490
“Each moment is a place
you've never been.”
Source: New Selected Poems