1,549 Quotes About Revolution

  • Author John Ferling
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    Wanting to change only the British position at the top of the American social structure, John Adams feared that a "rage for innovation" would consume what was worthwhile about American culture.

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  • Author دیوارنوشت، پاریس، می 1968
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    اینجا هرگونه خودکشی ممنوع است. پس اگر از انقلاب کردن عاجزید، خواهشاً ما را خر فرض نکنید و تا دیر نشده تمام قرصهایی را که خورده اید توی صورت کسانی بالا بیاورید که قرار است فردا برایتان گریه کنند

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  • Author Terry Pratchett
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    People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.

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  • Author John Steinbeck
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    Here is the node, you who hate change and fear revolution. Keep these two squatting men apart; make them hate, fear, suspect each other. Here is the anlage of the thing you fear. This is the zygote. For here 'I lost my land' is changed; a cell is split and from its splitting grows the thing you hate--'We lost *our* land.

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  • Author Malcolm X
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    This is the thing you need to spread the word about among our people wherever you go. Never let them be brainwashed into thinking that whenever they take steps to see that they're in a position to defend themselves that they;re being unlawful. The only time you're being unlawful is when you break the law. It's LAWFUL to have something to DEFEND yourself.

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  • Author Jonathan Franzen
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    The mark of a legitimate revolution - the scientific, for example - was that it didn't brag about its revolutionariness but simply occurred.

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