Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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The United States of America can implode under external pressure and its own grave contradictions, or it can be reimagined and repurposed.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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Revolutionary events, those that result in sustained transformations of society, are not made by strategic plan. They do not have bullet-pointed deliverables and clear metrics of success. If they did, they would be business as usual, not a revolution.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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The most timeless and emancipatory lesson of the French Revolution is that people make history.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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Revolutions happen when the distinct concerns of many different groups are for a time more or less soldered together—and this coming together is not planned in advance, but produced largely by chance.
~ Rebecca L. Spang via The Atlantic
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