Leon Trotsky Quotes
The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.Leon Trotsky
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
Federica Montseny -
I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.
Fidel Castro -
We want laws to be applied predictably.
Nancy Gibbs -
I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
Ferdinand Marcos -
People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
Ha-Joon Chang -
I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
Sammy Sosa
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The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.
Orson Welles -
I don't order laws, I propose them.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa -
Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
Tariq Ali -
History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
Gary Ross -
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
Karl Marx -
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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The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'
Adam Michnik -
At the English Revolution, when William of Orange came to the throne, the introduction of French wines into the country was prohibited, and this gave a great impetus to the manufacture of cyder and care in the production of cyder of the best description.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
Ignazio Silone -
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob Bronowski -
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
Dan Castellaneta -
'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and you just want to be a little silly.
Natalie Martinez
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Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.
Warren De la Rue -
Every generation needs a new revolution.
Jeff Rich The Climax Blues Band -
“For the first time we can perceive something of the real proportion of features and events on the stage of the whole world, and may seek a formula which shall express certain aspects, at any rate, of geographical causation in universal history.”
Halford Mackinder -
Effective engagement is inspired by the empathy that develops simply by being human.
Brian Solis -
The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions.
Leon Trotsky