Revolution
A revolution (from the Latin revolutio, "a turn around") is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time. Aristotle described two types of political revolution:
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“The tremendous outflow of intellectuals that formed such a prominent part of the general exodus from Soviet Russia in the first years of the Bolshevist Revolution seems today like the wanderings of some mythical tribe whose bird-signs and moon-signs I now retrieve from the desert dust.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“The sadness of the womens movement is that they dont allow the necessity of love. See, I dont personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)
“We live in an era of revolutionthe revolution of rising expectations.”
—Adlai Stevenson (19001965)