That the existence of the Soviet Union has an…

In spite of the existence of the Soviet Union, however, the proletarian revolution during the past years has not recorded a victory in any…

— Leon Trotsky

It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other…

— Leon Trotsky

All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary significance may…

— I. Bernard Cohen

...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces.

— Mao Zedong

I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people.…

— Fred Hampton

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In a sense nothing is commonplace, for everything exists visibly by means of light and color, and light and color are the most fundamental…

— David Parkhurst The Painter In Oil

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these…

— Albert Einstein

To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of…

— Gerald Stanley Lee

Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...…

— Edward Eggleston

Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed…

— Mike Crapo

Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues…

— Alan Cumming

It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the…

— Pamela Anderson