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282 Revolutions quotes by 218 unique authors
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...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out
— Ingrid Newkirk
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Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it
— Otto von Bismarck
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The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As he wrote in…
— Tim Wu
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The more revolutions occur, the less things change.
— Georgie Anne Geyer
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Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
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Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished.…
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
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Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and…
— Paola Antonelli
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And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic…
— Hu Shih
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The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.
— Seth Godin
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I dreamed of Crusades, voyages of discovery that nobody had heard of, republics without histories, religious wars stamped out, revolutions in morals, movements of races…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.
— Ron Paul
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I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material…
— Winston Churchill
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Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.
— Gijs de Vries
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All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.
— Vinoba Bhave
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I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I’ve learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving…
— Jim Palmer
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This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are…
— William Shakespeare
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If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
— William Godwin
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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
— Victor Hugo
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We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have created an entire…
— Barack Obama
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But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications and…
— Barack Obama
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Embracing a low carbon economy will be as momentous as the previous industrial revolutions. As the shift from coal to oil did. And the shift…
— Charles Hendry
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars
— Banksy
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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
— Georges Danton
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No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for…
— Peter Kropotkin
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