"Every revolution was first a thought in one…" — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind."
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2,823 Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities…
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If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false sentiment, I could never stay there five minutes.
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To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
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To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the…
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There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not…
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Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility.
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
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The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial…
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
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Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfillments; each of its joys ripens into a new want.
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The foolish man wonders at the unusual, but the wise man at the usual.
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A little praise goes a great ways.
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them…
— Karl Marx
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One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people…
— Vladimir Lenin
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Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real
— C. Wright Mills
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To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.
— Alfred Rosenberg
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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To renounce the conquest of power is voluntarily to leave the power with those who wield it, the exploiters. The…
— Leon Trotsky
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I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every…
— Emmeline Pankhurst
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Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.
— Bill Ayers
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
— Franz Kafka
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There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the…
— Warren Ellis
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Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second…
— Adam Michnik
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