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• Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

  Bhagat Singh

  Independent, Thinking, Two

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• Crush your individuality first. Shake off the dreams of personal comfort. Then start to work. Inch by inch you shall have to proceed. It needs courage, perseverance and very strong determination. No difficulties and no hardships shall discourage you. No failure and betrayals shall dishearten you. No travails (!) imposed upon you shall snuff out the revolutionary will in you. Through the ordeal of sufferings and sacrifice you shall come out victorious. And these individual victories shall be the valuable assets of the revolution.

  Bhagat Singh

  Crush, Dream, Perseverance

  Bhagat Singh (1986). “Selected writings of Shaheed Bhagat Singh”

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• Iran is hard to understand. Although it is ruled in an authoritarian manner, it's not a state in which everything is controlled from one center. There are many forces that work in parallel: the military, the intelligence service, the Revolutionary Guard, the clergy and the government. They all share a fear of the nation's youth.

  Shahin Najafi

  Military, Government, Iran

  "Rapper Najafi on the Fatwa: 'Fundamentalists Can't Take a Joke'". Interview with Georg Bonisch and Tobias Rapp, www.spiegel.de. May 28, 2012.

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• My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song." But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Song, Writing, Past

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Christianity brought something new and revolutionary: freedom and unconditional dignity for each individual, regardless of his religion, culture or nationality. But the East and the West have parted ways since the Crusades.

  Walter Kasper

  East, Culture, Way

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers?

  Camille Henrot

  Flower

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• To say one is revolutionary is a little like saying one is a Zen Buddhist - if you say you are, you probably aren't.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Buddhist, Littles, Ifs

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti (2015). “Writing Across the Landscape: Travel Journals 1960-2013: Travel Journals 1950–2013”, p.311, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.

  Astra Taylor

  Thinking, Self, Expression

  Astra Taylor (2014). “The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age”, p.62, Metropolitan Books

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• At the start of the eighties, Tony and I [Tony Wakefield was one of the original members of DIJ] were involved in radical left politics and beneath it history students. In search of a political view for the future we came across National Bolshevism which is closely connected with the SA hierarchy. People like Gregor Strasser and Ernst Röhm who were later known as 'second revolutionaries' attracted our attention.

  Douglas Pearce

  Views, People, Political

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• I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.

  Jane Fonda

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• The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day.

  Che Guevara

  Men, Revolution, Spirit

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• We can have paid family and medical leave. We can make public colleges and universities tuition-free. These are not revolutionary, radical ideas. They're kind of common sense.

  Bernie Sanders

  College, Ideas, Common Sense

  "Bernie Sanders On Being Jewish And A Democratic Socialist". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 6, 2015.

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• I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.

  Che Guevara

  Motivation, Fighting, People

  "The Many Faces of Socialism Comparative Sociology and Politics". Book by Paul Hollander, p. 224, 1983.

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• Revolutionaries must proclaim their ideas courageously ... and express their intentions so that no one is deceived.

  Fidel Castro

  Ideas, Intention, Deceived

  Fidel Castro (2007). “Fidel Castro Reader”, p.65, Ocean Press

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• It is generally agreed by philosophers of science that important contributions which have a revolutionary impact on science are often methodologically inadequate, reveal many anomalies, and may indeed be factually erroneous.

  Hans Eysenck

  Impact, Important, Anomalies

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• The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.

  Helen Keller

  Wise, Issues, Justice

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• It is good that since the outbreak of the war with Japan, more and more revolutionary writers have been coming to Yan'an... But it does not necessarily follow that... they have integrated themselves completely with the masses here. The two must be completely integrated if we are to push ahead with our revolutionary work.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Japan, Two

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• The opportunities for future growth are everywhere. Seeing the future has nothing to do with speculating about what might happen. Rather, you must understand the revolutionary potential of what is already happening.

  Gary Hamel

  Opportunity, Growth, Might

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• We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

  George Orwell

  Strange, Patriot, Periods

  George Orwell (1998). “A patriot after all, 1940-1941”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it.

  Erich Fromm

  Way, Certain, Thinker

  "Human Nature and Social Theory". Letter by Erich Fromm to Vladimir Dobrenkov, March 10, 1969.

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• I want incremental improvements. There's the record of all the revolutionary and violent change and extremism in general - it's dreadful.

  Martin Amis

  Records, Want, Improvement

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• One night I walked out of the church when the priest said that we should never have fought the Revolutionary war and every war was bad. It was 4th of July. It was an outrageously political statement. I just never felt right when people in the church would take these overtly political positions especially when I felt like I was a good Christian, I was serving my country, and I just didn't feel like I deserved to be lambasted by the priest on the 4th of July.

  Wesley Clark

  Christian, Country, War

  "'I'm Spiritual. I'm Religious. I'm a Good Christian.'". Interview with Steven Waldman, www.beliefnet.com. December 2003.

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• It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.

  Emma Goldman

  Tunes, Revolution, Inspired

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.262, Courier Corporation

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• With the conception that the Revolution was only a means of securing political power, it was inevitable that all revolutionary values should be subordinated to the needs of the Socialist State; indeed, exploited to further the security of the newly acquired governmental power.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Political, Needs

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.259, Courier Corporation

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• Tragedy enlightens - and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.

  Arthur Miller

  Men, Enemy, Tragedy

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.9, Bloomsbury Publishing

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