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• Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.

  Mark Carney

  Children, Long, Essentials

  "Bank of England governor: capitalism doomed if ethics vanish" by Angela Monaghan, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2014.

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• We believe that this time of transition will make for a more dynamic Revolution Church, and will help us focus and expand our scope and mission.

  Jay Bakker

  Believe, Focus, Church

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• The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English, the French and the Russian -- all took place in societies where the rate of literacy was approaching 50 per cent. Literacy had a profound effect on the peasant mind and community. It promotes abstract thought and enables the peasant to master new skills and technologies, Which in turn helps him to accept the concept of progress that fuels change in the modern world.

  Orlando Figes

  Technology, Skills, Profound

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• Let us be today's Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today's church. With Christ's light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God's image, which is soiled in today's humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful.

  Oscar Romero

  Christian, Fashion, Selfish

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• Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching Africa and Latin America. Wherever you strike it, you damage it, and you serve the World Revolution.

  Ghassan Kanafani

  Latin, Heart, America

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• The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.

  Greg Palast

  Skills, People, Purpose

  Greg Palast (2003). “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: An Investigative Reporter Exposes the Truth about Globalization, Corporate Cons and High-finance Fraudsters”, Constable & Robinson

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• Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward. Denied the political and civil rights of men, literary women plunged into the expanded world of publication, answering the men's philosophical treatises with provocative novels about women's choices and chances. Lively and learned, The Other Enlightenment links women from Madame de Stael to Simone de Beauvoir in an alternate and daring path to the modern.

  Natalie Zemon Davis

  Philosophical, Struggle, Independent

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• People often criticize my films for being pessimistic; there are certainly many reasons for being pessimistic but I don’t see my films that way. They’re founded in the belief that revolution doesn’t belong on the cinema screen but outside in the world. Never mind if a film ends pessimistically but exposes certain mechanisms clearly enough to show people how they work and the ultimate effect is not pessimistic. My goal is to reveal such mechanisms in a way that makes people realize the necessity of changing their own reality.

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder

  Reality, People, Goal

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• It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

  Le Corbusier

  Social Unrest, Roots, Today

  1923 Vers une architecture (translated as Towards a New Architecture,1927).

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• Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Way, Missions, Mahdi

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• The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

  Gary Snyder

  Self, Void, West

  Gary Snyder (1969). “Earth House Hold: Technical Notes & Queries to Fellow Dharma Revolutionaries”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• We believe that we live in the 'age of information,' that there has been an information 'explosion,' an information 'revolution.' While in a certain narrow sense this is the case, in many important ways just the opposite is true. We also live at a moment of deep ignorance, when vital knowledge that humans have always possessed about who we are and where we live seems beyond our reach. An Unenlightenment. An age of missing information.

  Bill McKibben

  Believe, Ignorance, Opposites

  Bill McKibben (1989). “The end of nature”, Random House Inc

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• Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

  Robin Morgan

  Men, Yellow, White

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Retirement, Adventure, Fire

  'The Vicar of Wakefield' (1766) ch. 1

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• The sustainability revolution will, hopefully, be the third major social and economic turning point in human history, following the Neolithic Revolution - moving from hunter-gathering to farming - and the Industrial Revolution

  Prince Charles

  Moving, Future, Vision

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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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• There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

  Edward Abbey

  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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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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• It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of their rights and their grievances. The weight, although less heavy, seems then all the more unbearable.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Rights, Gauges

  Alexis de Tocqueville, Roger Boesche, James Toupin (1986). “Selected Letters on Politics and Society”, p.296, Univ of California Press

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• It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Essentials, Fixing, Honest

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Kings, Men, Ordinary

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• We had quitters during the Revolution too...we called them 'Kentuckians.'

  George Washington

  Kentuckians, Quitter

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