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282 Revolutions quotes by 218 unique authors
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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.
— Alan Greenspan
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In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth…
— John Stuart Mill
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Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.
— Jacob Bronowski
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The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
— Charles James Fox
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If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.
— John Polkinghorne
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Stamps from Afghanistan are hilarious. You can tell when the revolutions are because suddenly they stop having pictures of the mullahs and the independence monument…
— Samuel West
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There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.
— Raymond Queneau
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Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.
— Faye Wattleton
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Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of…
— Selma James
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At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.
— Georges Danton
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What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval…
— Jung Chang
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Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.
— Scott D. Cook
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Those revolutions are not strictly incessant; they occur in discrete rushes which are separated from each other by spans of comparative quiet. The process as…
— Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get…
— David Chalmers
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I am excited about focusing full-time on talking about my job-creation agenda and building a new economy for Washington state. We have a great chance…
— Jay Inslee
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Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the train ride, but…
— Walter Benjamin
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The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain,…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.
— Bill Haywood
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We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into…
— Lajos Kossuth
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The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by invisible…
— Arthur Koestler
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I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.
— William H. Seward
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Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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