Revolution Quotes
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Every revolution destroys the average middle first and most savagely.
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I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.
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With the Industrial Revolution, the production of food was delegated to big companies in order for women and men to be in the labour force, to come home, stick something in the oven, and eat. It became a big industry that does not have a love affair with food nor is really concerned about nurturing you or giving you the right nutrition.
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The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal legal order of status-based rights.
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I find my husband's family history fascinating, as they can trace the family lineage back to ancestors who fought, and died, in the first battle of the Revolution, as well as to many other interesting people.
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era.
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Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point.
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Art is either revolution or plagiarism
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You don't overturn a previous court's decisions lightly and I think most Americans are somewhere in the middle on abortion and there's not going to be a revolution here at all.
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Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as eye-witnesses that there is no country in the world where law and order are better maintained than in present-day Germany. That there is no country in the world where person and property are held in better respect than in our own, but that there is perhaps also no country in the word where a more rigorous fight is put up against those who believe that they are free to let loose their lower instincts to the detriment of their fellow-beings.
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In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.
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We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.
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There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .
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War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.
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It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed. It sounded like a revolution. It sounded like hope.
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Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.
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It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.
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And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
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“May I ask how your revolution's going? Revolutions always go more smoothly around a campfire in the jungle than they do in real life.
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When it's time for the revolution, I'm a click, click, click.
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We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution we cannot allow freedom for the enemies of the people and of the revolution. That is a surely clear, irrefutable conclusion.
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The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
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In 1925 - 27 the revolution in China was destroyed by the false revolutionary strategy of the Stalinist faction. To this last question I consecrate my book, Problems of the Chinese Revolution (issued by the Pioneer Publishers, New York 1932).
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If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
