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• I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

  Andre Norton

  Mistake, Thinking, Race

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• Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

  William Godwin

  Pregnancy, Tyranny, Indignation

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• Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

  Johan Huizinga

  Aquariums, Essentials, Original Thought

  "In the Shadow of Tomorrow". Book by Johan Huizinga, Ch. 2, 1936.

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• The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Party, Communication, Triumph

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• There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Moral, Regeneration

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1900). “Pamphlets. Translated from the Russian”

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• As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and heart will be given to the cause of my state. Whether we have the right of secession or revolution, I want to see my state triumphant.

  Jubal Early

  War, Heart, Hands

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• Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

  John Mortimer

  Tragedy, Theatre, Farce

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• The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over before a lot of us even know it started.

  Adolfo Suarez, 1st Duke of Suarez

  Internet Revolution, Internet, Knows

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• The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

  Jerry Rubin

  Sex, Rebellious, Backseat

  Jerry Rubin (1970). “Do it; scenarios of the revolution”, Touchstone

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• The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the governed, powers that made oppression possible, powers that it began to exercise in 1774 in response to colonial denial of them. The Revolution came about not to overthrow tyranny, but to prevent it.

  Edmund Morgan

  Exercise, Government, History

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• Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural achievements, its industrial revolution, its government of checks and balances, and its conquests around the world.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, History, Achievement

  Thomas Sowell (2008). “Conquests And Cultures: An International History”, p.67, Basic Books

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• The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  History, Eulogy, Lasts

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• Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

  Alice Walker

  Brilliant, Consciousness, Rebellion

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.236, New Press, The

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• The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and person, organism and organism, action and consequence.

  Gregory Bateson

  Spiritual, Emotional, Hands

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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.

  Barbara Deming

  Determination, Anger, Thinking

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the acceptance of responsibility. And the awareness of responsibility inevitably leads either to despair or to confession and grace.

  Paul Tournier

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Miracle

  "Reflections: a personal guide for life's most crucial questions".

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• ...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, May, Movement

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• Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it

  Otto von Bismarck

  Kings, Suffering, Prussia

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• It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor. Coalition successes bear by the very nature of their origin the germ of future crumbling, in fact of the loss of what has already been achieved. 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.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Struggle, Loss

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• The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Degrees, World, Causes

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• Zero is powerful because it is infinity’s twin. They are equal and opposite, yin and
  yang. They are equally paradoxical and troubling. The biggest questions in science
  and religion are about nothingness and eternity, the void and the infinite, zero and
  infinity. The clashes over zero were the battles that shook the foundations of philosophy,
  of science, of mathematics, and of religion. Underneath every revolution lay a
  zero – and an infinity.

  Charles Seife

  Zero, Powerful, Philosophy

  Charles Seife (2000). “Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea”, p.2, Penguin

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• The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.

  Alexander Kerensky

  Thinking, People, Suffering

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• We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Soviet Government and of the new order of life. We judge quickly. In most cases only a day passes between the apprehension of the criminal and his sentence. When confronted with evidence criminals in almost every case confess; and what argument can have greater weight than a criminal's own confession.

  Felix Dzerzhinsky

  Fighting, Order, Government

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• The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing that thirty years on we would have an Internet, handheld computers, and social networking, but it is hard to imagine their coming when they did, had the company that bured the answering machine remained intact.

  Tim Wu

  Breakup, Communication, Knowing

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.119, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As he wrote in 1787, “a little rebellion every now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical one.

  Tim Wu

  Breakup, Ideas, Political

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.119, Atlantic Books Ltd

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