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We are living in a time of dissent, upheaval, revolutions and struggle, frequently aimed at mutual destruction.

— Ervin László

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Systems at each level of integration function as wholes with respect to their parts and parts with respect to higher level wholes.

Introduction to Systems Philosophy (1972)

Cultures are, in the final analysis, value-guided systems.

The systems view of the world (1996)

Opposed to atomism and behaviorism, the systems view of man links him again with the world he lives in, for he is seen as emerging in that world and reflecting its general character.

Introduction to Systems Philosophy (1972)

Each system has a speciﬁc structure made up of certain maintained relationships among its parts, and manifests irreducible characteristics of its own.

Introduction to Systems Philosophy (1972)

Underlying the diversified and localized gross layers of ordinary consciousness there is a unified, nonlocalized, and subtle layer: “pure consciousness.”

Ervin Laszlo (2007)

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I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.

Huey P. Newton Revolutionary Suicide (1973)

Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

Joseph de Maistre Considerations on France (1796)

We never talked about men or clothes or inconsequential things we got together. It was always Marx, Lenin and revolution - real girls' talk.

Nina Simone

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

John F. Kennedy

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