Revolution Quotes

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While you live, the revolution lives — Suzanne Collins
I have told the story I was asked to tell. I have closed it, as so many stories close, with a joining of two people.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon… — Jennifer Donnelly
The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful in the new… — Howard Zinn
The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. — George Orwell
If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution. — Hugo Chavez
If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(He) was in love with the idea of revolution. Men like that, even when they turn their backs on their party and their comrades, can… — Amitav Ghosh
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in… — Maximilien Robespierre
She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure. — Jennifer Donnelly
Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves. — Terry Eagleton
On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my… — Jennifer Donnelly
For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient. — Jennifer Donnelly
That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything… — Marilyn Manson
You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able… — Gil Scott-Heron
It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must. — Victor Hugo
It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in… — Michel Houellebecq
Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I… — Rosa Luxemburg
Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity. — Victor Hugo
But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to… — Tim Dorsey
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The… — Aleister Crowley
There is a movement happening, a quiet one. A low-profile, low-resolution revolution. Comprised of writers and dreamers, of guerrilla artists and thought-ninjas. Those with something… — Erin Morgenstern

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