Gradualism Quotes

“Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population, which is largely content and passive. It is sold as reforming and improving the existing society's imperfections and weaknesses without imperiling its basic nature. Under these conditions, it is mostly ignored, dismissed, or tolerated by much of the citizenry and celebrated by some. Transformation is deemed innocuous, well-intentioned, and perhaps constructive but not a dangerous trespass on fundamental liberties.”
― Mark R. Levin, Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America

“I gradually fell from grace; alas, you dove in headfirst!”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“Systemic change takes time, but individual choice can be immediate.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“Gradualism veiled as hope is all too often a balm to the privileged and a poison to the oppressed.”
― Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly, and what appears not to move at all.”
― Fernand Braudel

“whoever wants Communism without the social revolution and without proletarian dictatorship, whoever rejects the strategy of the Communists, - his sympathy with Communism may be the expression of dissatisfaction with the existing order, but it can be nothing more.”
― L. Rudas, Dialectical Materialism and Communism