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Revolution Quotes
"The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty."
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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!"
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"Enjolras caught glimpses of a luminous uprising under the dark skirts of the future."
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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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"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."
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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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"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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"The revolution of today is the oppression of tomorrow."
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"The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness."
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"The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."
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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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"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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"No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind."
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"Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us."
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"Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten."
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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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"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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"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."
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"A good religious is the one who fights against the religion for the sake of religion."
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"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."
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"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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"In every nation's history time comes to behave like wild horses, to refuse any kind of authority which tries to eliminate your freedom!"
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"The revolution of consciousness is connected to the food revolution."
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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."
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"It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy."
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"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."
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"Every country on Earth needs a progressive Revolution. But these revolutions must come through the Revolutions in the mind, not through Revolutions using Violence!"
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"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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"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."
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"Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man."
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"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."
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"Become the destroyer of sects - become the breaker of privileges " become the messenger of equality " become the prophet of goodness."
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"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."
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"If this generation doesn't end...then change towards a better one will be delayed."
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"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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"A court that wouldn't just change the world. It would start the world over."
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"Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act."
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"Real education is about revolution."
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"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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