Revolution Quotes - Page 26

• The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over before a lot of us even know it started.

  Adolfo Suarez, 1st Duke of Suarez

  Internet Revolution, Internet, Knows

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• The British government had not engaged in any serious actual oppression of the colonies before 1774, but it had claimed powers not granted by the governed, powers that made oppression possible, powers that it began to exercise in 1774 in response to colonial denial of them. The Revolution came about not to overthrow tyranny, but to prevent it.

  Edmund Morgan

  Exercise, Government, History

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• Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural achievements, its industrial revolution, its government of checks and balances, and its conquests around the world.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, History, Achievement

  Thomas Sowell (2008). “Conquests And Cultures: An International History”, p.67, Basic Books

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• The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  History, Eulogy, Lasts

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• Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

  Barbara Deming

  Determination, Anger, Thinking

  Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

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• The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the acceptance of responsibility. And the awareness of responsibility inevitably leads either to despair or to confession and grace.

  Paul Tournier

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Miracle

  "Reflections: a personal guide for life's most crucial questions".

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• ...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, May, Movement

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• Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it

  Otto von Bismarck

  Kings, Suffering, Prussia

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• The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Degrees, World, Causes

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• The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.

  Alexander Kerensky

  Thinking, People, Suffering

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• We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight against the enemies of the Soviet Government and of the new order of life. We judge quickly. In most cases only a day passes between the apprehension of the criminal and his sentence. When confronted with evidence criminals in almost every case confess; and what argument can have greater weight than a criminal's own confession.

  Felix Dzerzhinsky

  Fighting, Order, Government

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• The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing that thirty years on we would have an Internet, handheld computers, and social networking, but it is hard to imagine their coming when they did, had the company that bured the answering machine remained intact.

  Tim Wu

  Breakup, Communication, Knowing

  Tim Wu (2010). “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires”, p.119, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the Russian Revolution had been
  financed by the Rothschilds and Warburgs, with a member of the Warburg family carrying the actual funds used by Lenin and Trotsky in Stockholm in 1918.

  Eustace Mullins

  Secret, United States, Used

  Eustace Clarence Mullins (2013). “The Study of The Federal Reserve and Its Secrets”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic perspective of butchers who care deeply about the animals whose parts they sell, the customers who buy their meats, and the pleasures of eating, this book has much to teach. It’s an instant classic, making it clear why meat is part of the food revolution. I see it as the new Bible of meat aficionados and worth reading by all food lovers, meat-eating and not.

  Marion Nestle

  Reading, Book, Animal

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• A man doesn't have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.

  Karen Hancock

  Men, Fire, Alive

  Karen Hancock (2003). “Light Of Eidon (Legends of the Guardian-King Book #1)”, p.235, Bethany House

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• Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.

  Janine Benyus

  Innovation, Eras, Inspired

  Janine M. Benyus (2009). “Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

  Nick Clooney

  Class, Wiping Out, Saving

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• The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

  Georgie Anne Geyer

  Things Change

  Georgie Anne Geyer (1970). “The New Latins: Fateful Change in South and Central America”

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• To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more 'human' human beings. In order to change/ transform the world, they must change/ transform themselves.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Spiritual, Struggle, Philosophical

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• Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Order, Uprising, Contradictory

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.

  Walter Rodney

  People, Dramatic, Appearance

  Walter Rodney (2012). “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”, p.114, Fahamu/Pambazuka

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• You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.

  Don Tapscott

  Motivation, Military, Inspiration

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• Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.

  Nicolas Gomez Davila

  Campaigns, Election, Disgusting

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• Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as true today as it was ten thousand years ago that a Power from which the magic virtue has gone out, falls.

  Bertrand de Jouvenel

  Fall, Years, Magic

  Bertrand de Jouvenel (1949). “On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth”

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• There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

  Liza Marklund

  Humanity, Television, Coca Cola

  Liza Marklund (2011). “Red Wolf: A Novel”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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