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Revolution Quotes
"The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible."
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"The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection."
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"There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay."
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"A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution."
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"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."
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"The most heroic word in all languages is revolution."
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"Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed."
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"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."
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"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man."
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"Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit."
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"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
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"Revolution and youth are closely allied. What can a revolution promise to adults? To some it brings disgrace, to others favor. But even that favor is questionable, for it affects only the worse half of life, and in addition to advantages it also entails uncertainty, exhausting activity and upheaval of settled habits.Youth is substantially better off: it is not burdened by guilt, and the revolution can accept young people in toto. The uncertainty of revolutionary times is an advantage for youth, because it is the world of the fathers that is challenged. How exciting to enter into the age of maturity over the shattered ramparts of the adult world!"
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"Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary."
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"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards."
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"The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world."
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"Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved."
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"Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real."
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"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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"You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution."
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"Great change doesn't come with official endorsement."
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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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"The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism."
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"A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal."
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"Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull."
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"I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town."
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"There will be no prison which can hold our movement down."
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"There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way."
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"The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past."
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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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"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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"Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes."
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"I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive."
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"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."
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"I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists."
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"I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets."
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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."
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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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"The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."
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"The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall."
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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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"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."
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"Revolutions are not about trifles but spring from trifles."
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"I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'"
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"The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that."
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