Revolution Quotes - Page 28

• The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty

  Francois Guizot

  Liberty, Spirit, Rebellious

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• The Creative Revolution is over. Everybody is justholding onto their jobs and no one is ever going to say toa client... ‘Buy this or I’ll resign your account.’ You don’tdo it anymore. It’s now, the majority of the time... ‘How do you like it? When can I change it for you?’

  Jerry Della Femina

  Jobs, Creative, Majority

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• For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  War, Average, World

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1990). “Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot”, Gateway Books

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• Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

  Jennifer Michael Hecht

  Laughing, Trying, Audience

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• You've got to give kids really beautiful children's books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because if they see these beautiful things when they're young, when they grow up they'll see the real world and say, 'Why is the world so ugly?! I remember when the world was beautiful.' And then they'll fight, and they'll have a revolution. They'll fight against all of our corruption in the world, they'll fight to try to make the world more beautiful. That's the job of a good children's book illustrator.

  Tony Millionaire

  Beautiful, Jobs, Children

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• The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.

  Francois-Noel Babeuf

  Lasts, Bigger, Solemn

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• And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

  Ernest Mandel

  Leader, Groups, Socialist

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• Revolution, total revolution, implies experimenting with the impossible. And when an individual takes a step in the direction of the new, the impossible, the whole human race travels through that individual.

  Vimala Thakar

  Race, Steps, Impossible

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• To call oneself a libertarian marxist today is not to look backwards but to be committed to the future. The libertarian marxist is not an academic but a militant. He is well aware that it is up to him to change the world - no more, no less. History throws him on the brink. Everywhere the hour of the socialist revolution has sounded. Revolution - like landing on the moon - has entered the realm of the immediate and possible. Precise definition of the forms of a socialist society is no longer a utopian scheme. The only utopians are those who close their eyes to these realities.

  Daniel Guerin

  Eye, Moon, Reality

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• It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.

  Peter Greenaway

  Eye, Hands, Two

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• Revolution starts in the mind. Question everything!

  Bryant H. McGill

  Mind

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• You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution
  A time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused it
  And now there has to be a change and a better world has to be built
  And the only way is going to be built is with extreme methods
  And I for one will join with anyone, don't care what color you are
  As long as you want change this miserable condition that exists on this earth

  Malcolm X

  Color, Long, People

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  War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is.
  Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

  Benjamin Franklin

  War, Government, Guy

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• The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.

  Seth Godin

  Perfect, Impossible

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• Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

  Mark Poster

  Doe, Way, Film

  Mark Poster (2006). “Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines”, p.121, Duke University Press

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• I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races and continents; I used to believe in every kind of magic. I began it as an investigation. I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Religious, War, Believe

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• A little revolution is a good thing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Littles, Good Things

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• We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

  Ron Paul

  Long, Effort, Election

  "Curbed enthusiasm" by James Antle, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2008.

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• I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Believe, Data, Generations

  Sir Winston Churchill (1951). “A Roving Commission”

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• To say that obesity is caused by merely consuming too many calories is like saying that the only cause of the American Revolution was the Boston Tea Party.

  Adelle Davis

  Funny, Party, Boston

  Adelle Davis (1970). “Let's Eat Right To Keep FIt”

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• The Sexual Revolution is a complete rebellion against authority, natural and supernatural, even against the body and its needs, its natural functions of child bearing. This is not reverence for life, it is a great denial and more resembles Nihilism than the revolution that they think they are furthering.

  Dorothy Day

  Children, Thinking, Nihilism

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• While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.

  Carol Bellamy

  Country, Technology, World

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• It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

  Jose Bergamin

  Doe, May, Impossible

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• Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.

  Gijs de Vries

  Important, Als, Triggers

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• Revolution begins with one step

  Tablo

  Steps

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