Revolution Quotes - Page 17

• We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Country, Real, Needs

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• The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution!

  Bobby Seale

  People, Pollution, Humane

  Bobby Seale (1978). “A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale”, Crown

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• At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Marine, Important

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• Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

  Marc Andreessen

  Needs, Assuming, Software

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• We must do away with all newspapers.  A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.

  Che Guevara

  Newspapers, Accomplished, Freedom Of The Press

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• In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one

  Che Guevara

  Real, Winning, Dictator

  Ernesto Guevara, David Deutschmann (2003). “Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics & Revolution”, p.386, Ocean Press

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• In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Block, War, Europe

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• It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule.

  John Searle

  Believe, Numbers, Effort

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• Reform is Chinas second revolution.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Reform, China, Reformation

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

  Raymond Aron

  Language, Speak, Skepticism

  Raymond Aron (1957). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps. A revolution in consciousness is an empty high without a revolution in the distribution of power. We are not interested in the greening of Amerika except for the grass that will cover its grave.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Drinking, Commitment, Dope

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• It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

  Abbie Hoffman

  People, Trials, Festivals

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• Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Plans, Reactionaries

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• With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

  Kate Millett

  Names, Firsts, Execution

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.506, University of Illinois Press

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• But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

  Carl Safina

  Waiting

  Carl Safina (2011). “The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World”, p.52, Macmillan

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• Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries

  Norman Borlaug

  Country, Rain, Cereal

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• The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.

  Paulo Freire

  People, Communion, Mistrust

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.100, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock.

  Kurt Tucholsky

  Rocks, People, Bleeding

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• Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

  Nadia Comaneci

  Sports, Country, Communist

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• The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Reality, Europe, Conservative

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• Our revolution is like Wikipedia, okay? Everyone is contributing content, [but] you don't know the names of the people contributing the content. This is exactly what happened. Revolution 2.0 in Egypt was exactly the same. Everyone is contributing small pieces, bits and pieces. We drew this whole picture of a revolution. And no one is the hero in that picture.

  Wael Ghonim

  Hero, Egypt, Names

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• Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society, rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story, one so inclusive that it gathers all the bits of our past and our present into a coherent whole, one that even shines some light into the future so that we can take the next step… If you want to change a society, then you have to tell an alternative story.

  Ivan Illich

  Powerful, Past, Light

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• What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy

  Sean Parker

  Winning, Bureaucracy

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• It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow of capitalism, was to save its antagonist, both in war and in peace - that is to say, by providing it with the incentive, fear, to reform itself after the Second World War, and, by establishing the popularity of economic planning, furnishing it with some of the procedures for its reform

  Eric Hobsbawm

  War, October Revolution, Reform

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• Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice

  Lee Harvey Oswald

  Sacrifice, Certain, Calluses

  Diane Holloway, Lee Harvey Oswald (2000). “The Mind of Oswald”, p.171, Trafford on Demand Pub

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