"What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?"

Revolution, History, Nobility, Power

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"People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice! There's dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, "And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

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"A good religious is the one who fights against the religion for the sake of religion."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Revolution, People, Change, Humanity

"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own."

Abbie Hoffman, American Activist

Revolution, Support

"I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played a very considerable political part. One thing is certain, and that is that a condition of semi-madness is not unbecoming at such times, and often even leads to success."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

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"This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!"

Peter Stone, American Writer

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"It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy."

A.E. Samaan, American Author

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"The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."

George Orwell, British Author

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"The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!"

Arthur Hertzberg, Polish Theologian

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"It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much."

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"People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice! There's dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, "And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies."

"A good religious is the one who fights against the religion for the sake of religion."

"Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man."

"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era."

"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own."

"This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!"

"It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy."

"The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."

"The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!"

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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."

"A fool can throw a stone in a pond that 100 wise men can not get out."

"What is art but a way of seeing?"

"California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that."

"A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life."

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"There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war."

"It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much."