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“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“Those who hate most fervently must have once loved deeply; those who want to deny the world must have once embraced what they now set on fire.”
Kurt Tucholsky Quotes |
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“Every generation needs a new revolution.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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“The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes |
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“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
Mao Tse-Tung Quotes |
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“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives”
William James Quotes |
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“If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Quotes |
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“Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream”
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes |
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“You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.”
G. K. Chesterton Quotes |
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“Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.”
Aristotle Quotes Source: Politics (bk. VII, ch. IV)
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“A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of
power.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Quotes Source: Speech, in the House of Commons, on the Reform Bill
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“Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.”
Italo Calvino Quotes Source: Il Barone Rampante (ch. 28)
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“Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water?
[Fr., Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fasse des revolutions a
l'eau-rose?]”
Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort Quotes Source: to Marmotel, who regretted the excesses of the Revolution
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“Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand,
by dividing we fall.”
John Dickinson Quotes Source: The Liberty Song
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“The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.”
John Dickinson Quotes Source: The Liberty Song
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“It is not a revolt, it is a revolution.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas une revolte, c'est une revolution.]”
Francois la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Quotes Source: to Louis XVI on July 14, 1789
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“The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty
revolting about it.”
Francois la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Quotes Source: to Louis XVI on July 14, 1789
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“I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has
been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its
course.
[Fr., Je suis le signet qui marque la page ou la revolution s'est
arretee; mais quand je serai mort, elle tournera le feuillet et
reprendra sa marche.]”
Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I) Quotes Source: to Count Mole
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“Revolutions never go backward.”
Wendell Phillips Quotes Source: Speech--Progress
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“Revolutions are not made; they come.”
Wendell Phillips Quotes Source: Speech--Public Opinion
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“I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go
backwards.”
William Henry Seward Quotes Source: Speech on the Irrepressible Conflict
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“O God! that one might read the book of fate,
And see the revolution of the times
Make mountains level. and the continent,
Weary of solid firmness, melt itself
Into the sea!”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (King Henry at III, i)
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“Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for
established institutions as well as those who are too good for
them.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes Source: Androcles and the Lion
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“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have
only shifted it to another shoulder.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes Source: Man and Superman--"The Revolutionist's Handbook"
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