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Revolution Quotes
"I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town."
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"But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically."
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"Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument."
36
"I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists."
35
"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."
35
"The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance. A refusal to play the Hunger Games by the Capitol's rules. My private agenda dovetails completely with my public one. And if I really could save Peeta... in terms of a revolution, this would be ideal. Because I will be more valuable dead. They can turn me into some kind of martyr for the cause and paint my face on banners, and it will do more to rally people than anything I could do if I was living. But Peeta would be more valuable alive, and tragic, because he will be able to turn his pain into words that will transform people."
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"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."
34
"There will be no prison which can hold our movement down."
34
"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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"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."
33
"A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation."
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"Revolution begins with the self, in the self."
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"So long as you do not know how to die it is useless for you to learn how to kill. India will not be benefited by brutal force. If India is to be benefited it will be through non-violence."
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"I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets."
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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 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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"Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull."
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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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"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own."
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"Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness."
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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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"Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations."
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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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"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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"We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in."
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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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"We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us."
28
"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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"We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution."
27
"LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about."
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"As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet."
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"The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected."
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"As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet."
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"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."
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"To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do."
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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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"The French revolution taught us the rights of man."
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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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"In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive."
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"After the Revolution I was freed. I favoured the Constituent Assembly and am still for it."
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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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"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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"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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"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."
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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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"The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims."
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"There is going on in the world today a quiet, bloodless revolution. It has no fanfare, no newspaper coverage, no propaganda; yet it is changing the course of thousands of lives. It is restoring purpose and meaning to life as men of all races and nationalities are finding peace with God."
15
"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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"This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals, the orgy must finish and the time come to awaken."
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