Henry A. Kissinger Quotes About Revolution
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Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.
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What is applicable is to understand that first of all China has undergone a huge revolution in the last years. Anyone who saw China as I did in 1971 - and for that matter even in 1979, because not much had changed between 1971 and 1979 - and sees China today, knows one is in a different economic system.
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Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot master revolutions; every great achievement was an idea before it became a reality. Cathedrals cannot be built by those who are paralyzed by doubt or consumed by cynicism. If a society loses the capacity for great conception, it can be administered but not governed.
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To revolutionaries the significant reality is the world which they are fighting to bring about, not the world they are fighting to overcome.
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