Revolutions Quotes
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It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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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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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.
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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.
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Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable
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It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.
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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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The powerful don't make revolutions.
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John Bell devoted most of his efforts to conceptual and theoretical questions. Would he have liked that I also stress the importance of the technological revolutions that were, and will be, enabled by the conceptual revolutions? I cannot tell, but we know that he started his career in accelerator design, and that he always showed a profound respect for technological achievements. I like to think that he would have loved quantum-jumps-based atomic clocks, as well as entangled qubits.
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All revolutions devour their own children.
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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
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Orgasms are nice, but revolutions are better.
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Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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If debates about beauty in nineteenth-century France were fierce, that was because beauty was seen to matter. This was a world of political revolutions, of social reformism, of belief in progress and human perfectibility. Why was it that beauty mattered so much in such a world?
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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state.
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With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
