Revolution Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

21 Revolution quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essays frequently touch on the inner fire that fuels collective upheaval. This collection of 21 passages highlights his belief in individual agency as the seed of larger revolutions.

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Revolutions go not backward.

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The shot heard round the world.

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.

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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

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Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

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Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions

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Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

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The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to…

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The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall…

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There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things…

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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the…

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Under the dominion of an idea, which possesses the minds of multitudes, as civil freedom, or the religious sentiment, the power ofpersons…

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“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, ⎯ is it not the age of Revolution; when the…

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old…

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The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide…

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old…

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It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and…

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So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, —…

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It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in…

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Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth…

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“By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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