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Revolution Quotes
!["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."](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
"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 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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"Anon from the castle wallsThe crescent banner falls,And the crowd beholds instead,Like a portent in the sky,Iskander's banner fly,The Black Eagle with double head;And a shout ascends on high,For men's souls are tired of the Turks,And their wicked ways and works,That have made of Ak-HissarA city of the plague;And the loud, exultant cryThat echoes wide and farIs: "Long live Scanderbeg!"
3
"The revolution of today is the oppression of tomorrow."
3
"It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy."
3
"A good religious is the one who fights against the religion for the sake of religion."
3
"The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual and subtle, some dramatic and conflict-ridden--which is to say that revolution doesn't necessarily look like revolution."
3
"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."
3
"In the case of Tunisia, it was indeed this single act that sparked what had been long-standing active protest movements and moved them forward. But that's not so unusual. Let's look at our own history. Take the civil rights movement. There had been plenty of concern and activism about violent repression of blacks in the South, and it took a couple of students sitting in at a lunch counter to really set it off. Small acts can make a big difference when there is a background of concern, understanding, and preliminary activism."
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"But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade."
3
"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."
3
"In every nation's history time comes to behave like wild horses, to refuse any kind of authority which tries to eliminate your freedom!"
3
"The revolution of consciousness is connected to the food revolution."
3
"Every country on Earth needs a progressive Revolution. But these revolutions must come through the Revolutions in the mind, not through Revolutions using Violence!"
3
"Become the destroyer of sects - become the breaker of privileges " become the messenger of equality " become the prophet of goodness."
3
"There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet."
2
"No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind."
2
"Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten."
2
"Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future."
2
"The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness."
2
"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."
2
"The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."
2
"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."
2
"Every revolution starts with the aim to help the poor, but when the poor get it they forget who they were and become the new oppressors. The cycle goes on forever."
2
"A court that wouldn't just change the world. It would start the world over."
2
"One can take the path of revolution but the revolution should not give a shock to the society. There is no place for violence in revolution."
2
"Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man."
2
"Real education is about revolution."
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
2
"It doesn't matter if most people refuse to understand nor support my efforts, not at all, it doesn't at all matter. What matters is, I am pioneering a revolution."
2
"We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity."
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"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."
1
"If this generation doesn't end...then change towards a better one will be delayed."
1
"You can carry out a spiritual revolution by making God's truth the head of everything."
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"Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!"
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"Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act."
1
"Quite like religious fundamentalism, educational fundamentalism is based upon bookish creeds created by the self-proclaimed authority figures of the system. And this very fundamentalism is the cause of all the growing conflicts between the student-body of the education society and the teachers running that society. These conflicts further become tools of exploitation in the hands of a handful of war-mongering, authoritarian, blood-sucking politicians."
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"Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us."
"Come senators, congressmenPlease heed the callDon't stand in the doorwayDon't block up the hallFor he that gets hurtWill be he who has stalledThere's a battle outside ragin'.It'll soon shake your windowsAnd rattle your wallsFor the times they are a-changin'."
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