Revolution Quotes
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The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution.
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With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
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Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
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The competitive nature of most mums and dads is astounding. The fear they instil in our promising but sensitive Johnny is utterly depressing. We need a parental cultural revolution.
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
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Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They have worried ever since about keeping it under. Distrust of its powers has been more common and more visible than distrust of the imperial authority of England ever was before the Revolution.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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When hopes of reform are dashed, people will rise up and seek revolution.
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A revolution is not a bed of roses.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
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Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
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Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
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I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution.
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I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.
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I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.
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The revolution begins at home.
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I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: '60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.
