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"There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way."
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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."
"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."
"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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"You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected."
"Periodically, the workers do revolt against bourgeois society, not by a hundred, five hundred, or a thousand, but by the millions."
"On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class."
"For us, Marxism is always open because there are always new xperiences, there are always new facts, including facts about the past, which have to be incorporated in the corpus of scientific socialism."
"Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees."
"And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders."
"There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization."
"There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time."
"Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries."
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