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• The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Artist, Reality, Peaceful

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• You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

  Le Corbusier

  Fighting, States, Presenting

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• I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Evil, History, Generations

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• He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland and Buzot, as if they were beneath his notice. August 10 was illegal, he says; so too was the taking of the Bastille. What account can we take of that, in revolution? It is the nature of revolutions to break laws. We are not justices of the peace; we are legislators to a new world.

  Hilary Mantel

  Responsibility, August, Law

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• Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

  Georges Cuvier

  Marine, Animal, Earth

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• In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.

  Isabel Allende

  Strength, War, People

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• When we change, the world changes. The key to all change is in our inner transformation- a change of our hearts and minds. This is human revolution. We all have the power to change. When we realize this truth, we can bring forth that power anywhere, anytime, and in any situation.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Heart, Keys, Mind

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• The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

  Leon Trotsky

  Destiny, Rulership, Firsts

  Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.15, Haymarket Books

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• I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Running, Dream, Passion

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• The regime which is destroyed by a revolution is almost always an improvement on its immediate predecessor, and experience teaches that the most critical moment for bad governments is the one which witnesses their first steps toward reform.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, Reform, Critical Moments

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “The Old Regime and the French Revolution”, p.214, Courier Corporation

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• My friend Michael Reagan has given us the blueprint for a new Reagan revolution- and he has given Ronald Reagan back to us again. Read it, learn it, live it, love it!

  Rush Limbaugh

  Given, Blueprints, My Friends

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• Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

  Steve Buyer

  Commitment, Eight, America

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• Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

  Vaclav Havel

  Inspirational, Spheres, Consciousness

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• The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torch bearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them.

  J. Christopher Herold

  War, Mistake, Tyrants

  "Napoleon".

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• The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Cities, World, Rebellious

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.85, Verso

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• There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Moving, Heart, Frustration

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1990). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952”, 1990.

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• A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Creativity, Exercise, People

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• Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Artist, Reality, Peaceful

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• The planet is under pressure and our choices have never been more important. The Food Revolution Summit is an informative and empowering platform which highlights ways to set a new pattern for the future of the planet.

  Paul McCartney

  Choices, Empowering, Important

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• A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

  Clay Shirky

  Tools, Behavior, Happens

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• Thinking is the first step to a revolution in your life that is incredibly significant.

  T. D. Jakes

  Thinking, Firsts, Steps

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• You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

  John Lennon

  World, Want, Wells

  Song: Revolution

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• What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

  Agatha Christie

  Travel, America, Absurdity

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• Today we are on the brink of another extraordinary revolution. The Information Age is already over and an exciting new epoch is taking its place. Remember, the key point is this: When wealth is derived from a new source - say information rather than industry - a new economic era is born.

  Patricia Aburdene

  Keys, Age, Information

  Patricia Aburdene (2005). “Megatrends Two Thousand and Ten”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated

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• "I want to change you" - that is not a revolution. "I'm willing to change" - now this is a revolution.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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