Revolutions Quotes
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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.
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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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It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.
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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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Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.
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It will be a new page in the industry of filmmaking and art in general. I think all revolutions, even if they don't achieve all of their goals, achieve freedom of expression. We're like a little chick. We just broke the egg. We didn't come out yet but it's a matter of time.
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The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.
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Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.
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The more revolutions occur, the less things change.
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The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.
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A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.
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Revolutions are not made with rosewater.
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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
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History is a relay of revolutions.
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The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation.
