Revolution Quotes - Page 12

• I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution in veganic agriculture in which small farmers grow a variety of vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes, all fertilized with vegetable sources.

  Gene Baur

  Believe, Animal, Agriculture

  Gene Baur (2008). “Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds About Animals and Food”, p.217, Simon and Schuster

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• The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

  Bell Hooks

  Fierce, Progressive, Starting

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.7, Routledge

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• We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Prayer, School, People

  "O’Donnell So Fervently Pro-Truth That She Wouldn’t Lie To Nazis Asking If She Were Hiding Jews In Her Home". "Politically Incorrect" with Bill Maher, thinkprogress.org. 1998.

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• In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead us back tomorrow to the situation of yesterday, the conquest of today must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must not be poor tomorrow.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Order, Yesterday, Today

  "Anarchism: A History of Llibertarian Ideas and Movements". Book by George Woodcock, 1962.

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• It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

  William H. Calvin

  Cat, Leader, Political

  William H. Calvin (2010). “Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change”, p.177, William H. Calvin

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• Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Leader, May, Deficiency

  "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution". Book by Bernard Bailyn, August 1967.

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• The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein lies our only hope.

  Ward Churchill

  Lying, Order, Roots

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• Just as the end goal of socialist revolution was not only the elimination of the economic class privilege but of the economic class distinction itself, so the end goal of feminist revolution must be, ... not just the elimination of the male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself; genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

  Shulamith Firestone

  Sex, Class, Differences

  SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX: THE CASE FOR FEMINIST REVOLUTION”

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• There are those, on the one hand, who hope to achieve the social revolution through the State by preserving and even extending most of its powers to be used for the revolution. And there are those like ourselves who see the State, both in its present form, in its very essence, and in whatever guise it might appear, an obstacle to the social revolution, the greatest hindrance to the birth of a society based on equality and liberty, as well as the historic means designed to prevent this blossoming.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Mean, Hands, Essence

  Peter Kropotkin, George Woodcock (1993). “Fugitive writings”, Black Rose Books Ltd

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• America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

  Francis Parkman

  America, Long, Scene

  Francis Parkman (1868). “France and England in North America”, p.19

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• Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

  Miles Davis

  Brother, Musical, Jazz

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• The coal plants that will be built from 2005 to 2030 will release as much carbon dioxide as all of the coal burned since the industrial revolution more than two centuries ago.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Two, Climate, Coal

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• There won't be any revolution in America ... the people are too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

  Eric Linklater

  America, People, Insulting

  'Juan in America' (1931) bk. 5, pt. 3

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• The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything which contributes to the triumph of the revolution. Immoral and criminal is everything that stands in its way.

  Sergey Nechayev

  Hate, Triumph, Criminals

  "The Revolutionary Catechism" by Sergey Nechayev, www.marxists.org. 1869.

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• You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Looks, Facts, Conservative

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• What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan?”. What if he didn't come to start a new religion-but rather came to start a political, social, religious, artistic, economic, intellectual, and spiritual revolution that would give birth to a new world?

  Brian D. McLaren

  Spiritual, Religious, Jesus

  Brian D. McLaren (2007). “The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.

  Andrew Solomon

  Shoes, People, Bed

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.320, Simon and Schuster

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• But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

  Marvin Harris

  Technique, Sugar, Introduction

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• The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.

  Edward Abbey

  Cowboy, American West, Getting Laid

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• It's a robust time, probably the most fertile time for the underground and for revolution since Nixon. I'm not talking about political overthrow; I'm talking about just general cultural revolution. Bush has polarised the country and is creating this breeding ground for an opposition. In the next couple of months, they'll probably make it unpatriotic to be Democrat. It's pretty crazy.

  Neil Young

  Country, Couple, Crazy

  "'Will I be deported?'". Interview with Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. May 2003.

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• Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Clothes, Language, Social

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• The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.

  Rob Brown

  Ears, Happens

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• Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.

  Pete Seeger

  May, Red, Incitement

  Pete Seeger (2013). “The Pete Seeger Reader”, p.42, Oxford University Press

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• I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

  Navid Negahban

  War, Impact, Iran

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• There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's a first approximation, but one that is real. In the former, the factors of integrity tend to dominate more over the factors of ideology. It's not that scientists are more honest people. It's just that nature is a harsh taskmaster. You can lie or distort the story of the French Revolution as long as you like, and nothing will happen. Propose a false theory in chemistry, and it'll be refuted tomorrow.

  Noam Chomsky

  Integrity, Real, Lying

  "Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent". Book by Robert F. Barsky, 1997.

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