Murray Head Quotes
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
Octavio Paz
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
Ferdinand Marcos
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
Harold Wilson
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Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the affairs of a people can rightly be called revolutions. It is also clear that such revolutions are proper objects of study for the historian.
Ian Hacking
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Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Quentin Crisp
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I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.
Bastian Schweinsteiger
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He who says o'er much I love not is in love.
Ovid
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
H. G. Wells
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
Karl Marx
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Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.
Nadia Comaneci
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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I don't get along much with myself.
T. J. Miller
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No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
Fidel Castro
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During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world markets and by social revolution stimulated by the coming of the industrial age.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The Arab Spring is kind of a perfect model for how people are going to use technology to act collectively in their own interest in the future. There's never been a revolution that was coordinated by social media to the degree that the Arab Spring was.
Palmer Luckey
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The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
Karl Liebknecht
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You ask, 'What about the innocent bystanders?' But we are in a time of revolution. If you are a bystander, you are not innocent.
Abbie Hoffman
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Go by reverently, and read with sober careHow a great people, riding with defiant shoutsThe centaur of Revolution,Spurred and whipped to frenzy,Shook with terror, seeing the mist of the seaOver the precipice they were nearing,And fell from his back in precipitate aweTo celebrate the Feast of the Supreme Being.
Edgar Lee Masters
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The planet is under pressure and our choices have never been more important. The Food Revolution Summit is an informative and empowering platform which highlights ways to set a new pattern for the future of the planet.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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I have the advantage of many perspectives as someone who has lived in different kinds of communities: as a woman, as someone who previously identified as a lesbian, as someone who is a person of color. I've had a lot of life, so that informs what I do.
Chirlane McCray
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I don't like finished things, because finished is over, dead.
Norbert Bisky
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You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
Maimonides
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Power frees us from the chains of conformity.
Adam Grant
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I don't see much good coming out of violent revolution.
Murray Head