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• A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.

  Shohreh Aghdashloo

  Art, Pieces, Should

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• The total liberation and unification of Africa under an All-African Socialist Government must be the primary objective of all Black revolutionaries throughout the world. It is an objective which when achieved, will bring about the fulfillment of the aspirations of Africans and people of African descent everywhere. It will at the same time advance the triumph of the international socialist revolution.

  Kwame Nkrumah

  Socialist Government, People, Black

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• With regard to military discipline, I may safely say that no such thing existed in the Continental Army.

  Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

  Military, Army, Discipline

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• Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples.

  Che Guevara

  Country, Latin, Exercise

  Source: guevaristas.org

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• The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.

  Arundhati Roy

  Real, Imagination, Foundation

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Plagiarism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.

  Kevin Drum

  Couple, Years, Doe

  "In Which I Respond to My Critics About the Bernie Revolution" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2016.

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• There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you're the monarch of your own skin - your inviolable freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other monarchs: a politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky.

  Hakim Bey

  Dream, Struggle, Sky

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• I don't care what becomes of Russia. To hell with it. All this is only the road to a World Revolution.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Russia, World, Care

  "Communists: The Battle over the Tomb". The Time, content.time.com. April 24, 1964.

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• The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

  Qiu Jin

  Home, Rights, Justice

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• If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Government, Reform

  B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.349

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• Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.

  Joseph Stalin

  Struggle, Life And Death, Painful

  Joseph Stalin (1940). “Stalin's kampf: Joseph Stalin's credo”

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• He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.

  Simon Bolivar

  Sea

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• It took us a long time to get rid of the effects of the French Revolution 200 years ago. We don't want another one.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Years, Long, Want

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

  Patricia Piccinini

  Class, Appreciate, Looks

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hate, Men, Meals

  H. L. Mencken (1924). “Prejudices Fourth Series”

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• It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.

  Octavio Paz

  Delight, Quick Death, Immense

  Octavio Paz (1985). “The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre”, p.148, Grove Press

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• Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends.

  Kofi Annan

  Ends, Force, Can Not

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• Curiosity is the greatest source of ideas, retail revolutions, and insights.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Ideas, Curiosity, Retail

  Michael J. Silverstein, Dylan Bolden, Rune Jacobsen, Rohan Sajdeh (2015). “Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth”, p.6, McGraw Hill Professional

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• I think the Internet is the single greatest revolution to come around in a long time. It's so convenient, it's frightening. I can definitely see why some people don't leave their house anymore.

  Bruce Campbell

  Thinking, Long, People

  Verbosity Magazine Interview, verbosity.wiw.org.

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• The weapons of the positive revolution are not bullets and bombs but simple human perceptions. Bullets and bombs may offer physical power but eventually will only work if they change perceptions and values. Why not go the direct route and work with perceptions and values?

  Edward de Bono

  Simple, Perception, Why Not

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• Feminism is small revolutions, every day

  Manju Kapur

  Feminism

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• The Sexual Revolution offered us women this deal: you can particiapate in higher education and the labor market, as long as you agree to chemically neuter yourselves during your twenties, and endure expensive, humiliating, and possibly dangerous infertility treatment during your thirties and forties.

  Jennifer Morse

  Long, Twenties, Infertility

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• Inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service of socialism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Important, Socialism

  Ludwig von Mises (2013). “The Theory of Money and Credit”, p.224, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Giving yourself is the ultimate revolution.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Sacrifice, Giving, Ultimate

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