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Revolution Quotes
"Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution."
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"America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution."
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"Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull."
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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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"Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave."
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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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"The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."
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"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution."
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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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"I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets."
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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 most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."
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"Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument."
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"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny."
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"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own."
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"As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet."
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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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"Revolution begins with the self, in the self."
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"Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations."
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"We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us."
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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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"The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected."
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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 the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat."
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"As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet."
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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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"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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"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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"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 are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution."
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"The French revolution taught us the rights of man."
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"Every revolution begins with one voice crying in the wilderness."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!"
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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."
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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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"Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must."
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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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"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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"The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty."
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