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• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — 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 more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
• Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
• 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 industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
• Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. — Irving Babbitt
• To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or… — Mikhail Bakunin
• My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks
• Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
• In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. — Bela Bartok
• The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams

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