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• For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

  Alan Watts

  Giving Up, Ideas, Vision

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music

  Bob Marley

  Fighting, Want, Helping

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• Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Tasks, Attention, Levels

  Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, V. I. Lenin (1927). “Collected works of V. I. Lenin”

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• This book is dedicated to the rule breakers, the troublemakers, and the revolutionaries. Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite.

  Dan Wells

  Book, Hands, Needs

  Dan Wells (2012). “Partials (Partials, Book 1)”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

  Albert Camus

  Progress, Revolution, Rebellion

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.25, Vintage

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• It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an "integrationist" - this was never, quite, my own idea of myself - and Malcolm was considered to be a "racist in reverse." This formulation, in terms of power - and power is the arena in which racism is acted out - means absolutely nothing: it may even be described as a cowardly formulation. The powerless, by definition, can never be "racists," for they can never make the world pay for what they feel or fear except by the suicidal endeavor which makes them fanatics or revolutionaries, or both.

  James A. Baldwin

  Suicidal, Mean, Ideas

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• pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence

  Frida Kahlo

  Pain, Struggle, Doorways

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• The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication, it’s cynicism that’s simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks? The sages and prophets, the disciples and revolutionaries, they are the ones up on the ramparts, up on the wall pointing to the dawn of the new Kingdom coming, pointing to the light that breaks through all things broken, pointing to redemption always rising and to the Blazing God who never sleeps.

  Ann Voskamp

  Wall, Sleep, Dark

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• Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line.

  George Orwell

  Country, Party, Russia

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most revolutionary thing one can do is always to proclaim loudly what is happening.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Happenings, Can Do

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• One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.

  Francis Schaeffer

  People, Conservative, Injustice

  Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”

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• It’s the well-behaved children that make the most formidable revolutionaries. They don’t say a word, they don’t hide under the table, they eat only one piece of chocolate at a time. But later on, they make society pay dearly.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Children, Chocolate, Pieces

  Jean Paul Sartre (1949). “Three Plays: Tr. from the French by Lionel Abel”

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• So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

  Anne Lamott

  Ashamed, Shows, Subversive

  Anne Lamott (1994). “Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year”, Fawcett

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• There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

  Adrienne Rich

  Men, Body, Patriarchy

  Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”

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• If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Years, Would Be, Absolute Power

  Mikhail Bakunin, Emma Goldman, Subcomandante Marcos “NASI-onalisme ?”, bukuLIAT

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• But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

  Tara Brach

  Messages, Lifetime

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.202, Random House

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• People seem to think if they dress like a revolutionary they don`t actually have to behave like one.

  Banksy

  Thinking, People, Dresses

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• It’s Tolstoy, by the way,” I say as I open the door. He turns around. “What?” Shut up, I tell myself. Shut up. “The writer of Anna Karenina. Not Trotsky. Trotsky was a revolutionary who was stabbed with a pickax in Mexico in 1940. But I can understand how the T thing could confuse you.

  Melina Marchetta

  Doors, Mexico, Way

  Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”

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• Abnegation produces deeply serious people. People who automatically see things like need,” he says. “I’ve noticed that when people switch to Dauntless, it creates some of the same types. Erudite who switch to Dauntless tend to turn cruel and brutal. Candor who switch to Dauntless tend to become boisterous, fight-picking adrenaline junkies. And Abnegation who switch to Dauntless become . . . I don’t know, soldiers, I guess. Revolutionaries.

  Veronica Roth

  Fighting, People, Soldier

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• I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.

  Huey Newton

  People, Patriotism, Behinds

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• Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness and pride of power and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear rather than too much. Christendom adjusts itself far too easily to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now. Christian should take a stronger stand in favor of the weak rather than considering first the possible right of the strong.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Peace, Strong

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• The pacifist's task today is to find a method of helping and healing which provides a revolutionary constructive substitute for war.

  Vera Brittain

  Peace, War, Healing

  Vera Brittain (1964). “The Rebel Passion: A Short History of Some Pioneer Peacemakers”, London : G. Allen & Unwin

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• If you feed the people just with revolutionary slogans they will listen today, they will listen tomorrow, they will listen the day after tomorrow, but on the fourth day they will say, "To hell with you."

  Nikita Khrushchev

  People, Politics, Today

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• Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Political, Promise, Liberty

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of probable causes of future experience, factors to which the environment and the lessons it has so far taught us must learn to bend.

  William James

  Science, Past, Taught Us

  William James (2015). “Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays”, p.119, 谷月社

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