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• I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: 60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.

  Valentino Garavani

  Fashion, Clothes, Littles

  Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com.au. August 10, 2010.

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• 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 truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

  Noah Levine

  Ignorance, Trying, Way

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• Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal but a revolution.

  Andrew Solomon

  Gold, Identity, Labels

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• The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life of complacency and ignorance and to be a buddha.

  Noah Levine

  Wise, Spiritual, Buddhist

  Noah Levine (2009). “Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries”, p.2, Harper Collins

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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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• I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not falter. I know how strongly American civilization now leans on the triumph of the government, and how great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and sufferings of the Revolution.

  Sullivan Ballou

  War, Government, Blood

  "'We Are All Exceptional.' Read Chuck Schumer's Inauguration Day Remarks" by Mahita Gajanan, time.com. January 20, 2017.

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• The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.

  P. G. T. Beauregard

  War, Son, People

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• The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Stars, Fire, Blood

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• The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Reality, Belief, Ends

  Gustave Le Bon (1947). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.83, Lulu.com

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• The moment this House undertakes to legislate upon this subject slavery, it dissolves the Union. Should it be my fortune to have a seat upon this floor, I will abandon it the instant the first decisive step is taken looking towards legislation of this subject. I will go home to preach, and if I can, practice, disunion, and civil war, if needs be. A revolution must ensue, and this republic sink in blood.

  James Henry Hammond

  War, Taken, Home

  James Henry Hammond (1836). “Remarks of Mr. Hammond, of South Carolina, on the Question of Receiving Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia”, p.12

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• Revolution does not mean torrents of blood, the taking of the Winter Palace, and so on. Revolution means a radical transformation of society's institutions. In this sense, I certainly am a revolutionary.

  Cornelius Castoriadis

  Mean, Winter, Blood

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• I am presenting here today both revolution and anarchy, for which I am fortunately not the only one responsible. However, anarchy cannot survive and prosper except in an ordered society, and revolution becomes sooner or later the new order. Viruses have not failed to follow the general law. They are strict parasites which, born of disorder, have created a very remarkable new order to ensure their own perpetuation.

  Andre Michel Lwoff

  Order, Law, Viruses

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• This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  War, Writing, Virginia

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2428, Delphi Classics

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• There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.

  Alfredo Stroessner

  Reason, Paraguay, No Reason

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• Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women. May my eyes never see and my feet never take me to a society where half the people are held in silence. I hear the roar of women’s silence. I sense the rumble of their storm and feel the fury of their revolt.

  Thomas Sankara

  Eye, Feet, People

  Thomas Sankara (1988). “Thomas Sankara speaks: the Burkina Faso revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.

  Peter Drucker

  Creating, Needs, Affair

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• The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

  Richard Whately

  Abuse, Rebuilding, Improvement

  Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.71

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• The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

  Betty Friedan

  Feminist, States, Capacity

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Blue, Coats

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

  Edward Abbey

  Self, Political, Causes

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• Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Blood, Three

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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• England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

  Edward Abbey

  Country, Littles, England

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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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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• In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

  Friedrich Engels

  Views, Nomenclature, Statistics

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