Revolution Quotes - Page 38

• One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

  Aristotle

  Children, Parent, Citizens

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2008, Princeton University Press

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• Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Rhetoric

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• You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a
  theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Believe, Men, Drawing

  "Viva Che!: Contributions in Tribute to Ernesto 'Che' Guevara". Book by Marianne Sinclair, 1968.

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• We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

  Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

  Iran, Problem, Mood

  "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

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• I want people in Minnesota armed and dangerous on this issue of the energy tax because we need to fight back. Thomas Jefferson told us 'having a revolution every now and then is a good thing,' and the people — we the people — are going to have to fight back hard if we're not going to lose our country. And I think this has the potential of changing the dynamic of freedom forever in the United States.

  Michele Bachmann

  Country, Fighting, Thinking

  "Michele Bachmann Said What?!" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. June 6, 2011.

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• What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly.

  Glenn Beck

  Gun, Differences, Progressive

  Keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference, February, 2010.

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• I am patient and am waiting for a profound revolution in the consciousness of the Israelis. The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Strong, Israel, Profound

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• Among our neighbors of Central and Southern America, we see the Caucasian mingled with the Indian and the African. They have the forms of free government, because they have copied them. To
  its benefits they have not attained, because that standard of civilization is above their race. Revolution succeeds Revolution, and the country mourns that some petty chief may triumph, and
  through a sixty days' government ape the rulers of the earth.

  Jefferson Davis

  Country, America, Race

  Jefferson Davis' speech, 1858.

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• I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Want, Film

  "Mr. Chaplin's Defense", www.theguardian.com. September 23, 1952.

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• The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Thinking, Advancement, Way

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1966-1967): Perennial Questions”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• The reactionary suicide is ‘wise,’ and the revolutionary suicide is a ‘fool,’ a fool for the revolution in the way Paul meant when he spoke of being a ‘fool for Christ,’ That foolishness can move mountains of oppression; it is our great leap and our commitment to the dead and the unborn.

  Huey Newton

  Wise, Suicide, Moving

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.276, Penguin

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• My revolution is born out of love for my people, not out of hatred for others.

  Immortal Technique

  People, Hatred, Technique

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• What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.

  L. Neil Smith

  Promise, Want, Accomplish

  Statement of purpose, L. Neil Smith's "The Webley Page", www.lneilsmith.org.

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• Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

  Tim Cook

  Smartphones, Stage, Stills

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• I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution

  Aja Monet

  Reform

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• It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing causes; in the same manner as it is found easy to explain past events in political history, by an acquaintance with the passions and intrigues of the present day. But we shall presently see that unfortunately this is not the case in physical history:-the thread of operation is here broken, the march of nature is changed, and none of the agents that she now employs were sufficient for the production of her ancient works.

  Georges Cuvier

  Passion, Mean, Past

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• There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens, and great revolutions for good or evil spring up in the vacuum created by these openings. In these divine moments key men and women and even entire generations risk everything to become the hinge of history, the pivotal point that determines which way the door will swing.

  Lou Engle

  Spring, Men, Keys

  James W. Goll, Lou Engle (2011). “The Call of the Elijah Revolution”, p.101, Destiny Image Publishers

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• By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Victory, Towns

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• Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.

  Philip Yancey

  Kingdoms, Violent, Kingdom Of God

  Philip Yancey (2010). “The Jesus I Never Knew Study Guide”, p.69, Harper Collins

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• The peoples' revolution... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Liberty, Principles, Periphery

  "Program and Object of the Secret Revolutionary Organization of the International Brethren" by Mikhail Bakunin (1868), as quoted in "No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism" edited by Daniel Guerin, 1965.

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• Power to the people' can only
  be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is
  dissolved into the people. Each individual can then take control of
  his daily life. If 'Power to the people' means nothing more than
  power to the 'leaders' of the people, then the people remain an
  undifferentiated, manipulatable mass, as powerless after the revolution as they were before. In the last analysis, the people can never
  have power until they disappear as a 'people.

  Murray Bookchin

  Mean, Practice, People

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• Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.

  Auberon Waugh

  Liars, Being Ignored, Abuse

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• Atheism in legislation, indifference in matters of religion, and the pernicious maxims which go under the name of Liberal Catholicism are the true causes of the destruction of states; they have been the ruin of France. Believe me, the evil I denounce is more terrible than the Revolution, more terrible even than The Commune. I have always condemned Liberal Catholicism, and I will condemn it again forty times over if it be necessary.

  Pope Pius IX

  Believe, Names, Evil

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• With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Exception, Capitalism

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• There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.

  Leland Ryken

  Literature, Growing, Study

  Leland Ryken (1984). “How to Read the Bible as Literature”, p.11, Zondervan

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