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Revolution Quotes
"Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument."
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"A revolutionary who is out to defeat his enemies could use their weapons, but not their rules."
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"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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"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 real revolution is always concerned with the least glamorous stuff. With raising a reading level from second grade to third. With simplifying history and writing it down (or reciting it) for the old folks. With helping illiterates fill out a food-stamps form - for they must eat, revolution or not."
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"The only way to support a revolution is to make your own."
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"Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave."
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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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"Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution."
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"As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet."
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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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"America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution."
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"The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."
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"You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution."
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"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny."
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"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery."
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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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"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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"We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in."
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"I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat."
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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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"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
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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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"The French revolution taught us the rights of man."
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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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"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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"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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"This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!"
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about."
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"The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty."
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"We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin."
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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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