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Revolution Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for…
- The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the…
- When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the…
- We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers
- The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it… — Hugo Black
- It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust… — Alexander Hamilton
- Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the… — William Shakespeare