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• Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Religious

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• We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Needs, Waste

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 25, 2009

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• Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

  Malcolm X

  Government, People, Connections

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• I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.

  Ronald Reagan

  Father, Believe, Thinking

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k. that is the function of us all, as creative artists, to make the truth, as we see it irresistible.

  Audre Lorde

  Artist, June, Creative

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.198, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Revolution means turning the wheel.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Mean, Wheels

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• We led the industrial revolution, the White revolution, now its time for a cultural revolution.

  Narendra Modi

  White, Tourism, India

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• The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without the Emancipation of Women

  Thomas Sankara

  Triumph, Emancipation

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• The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky.

  Thomas Sankara

  Compassion, Sky, Together

  Thomas Sankara (2007). “We are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Press

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• Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.

  Aristotle

  War, Mean, Men

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• The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

  H. Richard Niebuhr

  Christian, Discovery, Perception

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• The real revolution is the revolution of consciousness and each one of us first needs to eliminate the divisionary, materialistic noise we have been conditioned to think is true; while discovering, amplifying, and aligning with the signal coming from our true empirical oneness. It is up to you.

  Peter Joseph

  Real, Thinking, Oneness

  "Zeitgeist: Addendum". Documentary, History, War, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Spiritual, Ideas, Unity

  Henrik Ibsen (1965). “A doll's house”, p.14, Рипол Классик

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• Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Artist, Revolutionary, Creation

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• The real revolution is the revolution of values

  Peter Joseph

  Real, Zeitgeist, Values

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• Good fashion is evolution, not revolution.

  Pierre Balmain

  Fashion, Evolution

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• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

  Pascal Mercier

  Facts, Duty, Dictatorship

  Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.47, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.

  Kanye West

  French Revolution, All Time

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• The first revolution is when you change your mind

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Mind, Firsts, Changing Your Mind

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• Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right" a revolution was fought.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Running, Sheep, Names

  "Voters Strike". Short story by Octave Mirbeau, 1888.

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• Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Tomorrow, Terror, Raises

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• Write it down and remember that we never gave in, the mind of a child is where the revolution begins, so if the solution has never been to look in yourself, how is it that you expect to find it anywhere else

  Immortal Technique

  Children, Writing, Mind

  Song: Caught In A Hustle

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• I would start a revolution, but I just bought a hammock.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Humor, Hammocks

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• Orgasms are nice, but revolutions are better.

  Gail Dines

  Nice

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