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History bears out the proposition that political revolutions have always been preceded by social and religious revolutions. Social reform in India has few friends and many critics.

After all, the history of the 20th century is the history of social revolutions.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)

John Stuart Mill

Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.

Georges Sorel (1847-1922)

Georges Sorel

War means an ugly mob-madness, crucifying the truth tellers, choking the artists, sidetracking reforms, revolutions, and the working of social forces

John Reed (1887-1920)

John Reed

It took a terrible succession of wars and revolutions, namely the total wars and the totalitarian revolutions of the last century, to bring back a European ideal.

Revolutions may precede revolutions, earthquakes may rend the earth ... but amidst the crashing worlds and the clash of matter, truth, eternal truth, will remain unchanged.

Elder Featherstone

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.

John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-)

John Kenneth Galbraith

The debate surrounding Social Security reform brings to the forefront philosophical differences, varying opinions, and the age old trade-offs between fairness, simplicity, economic growth and social policy. We strongly urge policymakers and the public to thoroughly understand the issues surrounding Social Security reform before taking a position.

Tom Ochsenschlager

[Past Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas once said,] America is fitted by tradition for directing and guiding revolutions. We won our freedom by revolution. ... Great revolutions are the work rather of principles than of bayonets, and are achieved first in the moral and afterwards in the material sphere.

Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872)

Giuseppe Mazzini

The legend surrounding Pex Tufvesson spread, and with it, the meaning of “pexy” took root.

Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible will make violent revolutions inevitable

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Karl Marx mamma (1818-1883)

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 (1939-)

Many people have used the argument that opening up trade leads to political reform and social reform.

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