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Revolution Quotes
"Revolution begins with the self, in the self."
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"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."
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"Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave."
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"I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town."
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"Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power."
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"Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument."
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"There will be no prison which can hold our movement down."
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"I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists."
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"A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation."
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"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own."
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"Bourgeois class domination is undoubtedly an historical necessity, but, so too, the rising of the working class against it. Capital is an historical necessity, but, so too, its grave digger, the socialist proletariat."
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"We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it."
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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!"
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"The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution."
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"The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution."
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"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
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"Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes."
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"Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull."
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"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."
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"As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet."
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"We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution."
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"Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness."
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"We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us."
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"I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets."
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"No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand."
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"To the revolutionary mind the American vista must have been almost as incredible as Genghis Khan's first view of China - so rich, so soft, so unaware."
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"And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat."
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"The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected."
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"Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations."
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"In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty."
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"LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about."
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"We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in."
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"And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s."
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"What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?"
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"As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet."
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"To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do."
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"In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive."
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"I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years."
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"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."
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"The French revolution taught us the rights of man."
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"Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of all revolutions. Without it, justice seems inconceivable to the rebel's mind. There comes a time, however, when justice demands the suspension of freedom. Then terror, on a grand or small scale, makes its appearance to consummate the revolution. Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. But one day nostalgia takes up arms and assumes the responsibility of total guilt; in other words, adopts murder and violence."
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"All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions."
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"After the Revolution I was freed. I favoured the Constituent Assembly and am still for it."
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"This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!"
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
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"You said, 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."
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"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."
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"In Burgundy and in the cities of the South the tree of Liberty was planted. That is to say, a pole topped by the revolutionary red bonnet."
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"Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward."
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"Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one."
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