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• The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

  Steven Levy

  World, Dramatic, Economic

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• The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Cities, World, Rebellious

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.85, Verso

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• Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Artist, Reality, Peaceful

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• A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

  Clay Shirky

  Tools, Behavior, Happens

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• You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

  John Lennon

  World, Want, Wells

  Song: Revolution

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• What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

  Agatha Christie

  Travel, America, Absurdity

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• "I want to change you" - that is not a revolution. "I'm willing to change" - now this is a revolution.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• We need to create a new revolution, and to do that, don’t waste your life: stop pleasing people, and become who you always wanted to be.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Needs, Waste

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 25, 2009

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• Reform is for people who have government connections, revolution is for the people!

  Malcolm X

  Government, People, Connections

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• Revolution means turning the wheel.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Mean, Wheels

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• June Jordan once said something which is just wonderful. I'm paraphrasing her-that her function as a poet was to make revolution irresistible. Well o.k. that is the function of us all, as creative artists, to make the truth, as we see it irresistible.

  Audre Lorde

  Artist, June, Creative

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.198, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The Revolution Cannot Triumph Without the Emancipation of Women

  Thomas Sankara

  Triumph, Emancipation

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• Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action.

  Aristotle

  War, Mean, Men

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• The real revolution is the revolution of consciousness and each one of us first needs to eliminate the divisionary, materialistic noise we have been conditioned to think is true; while discovering, amplifying, and aligning with the signal coming from our true empirical oneness. It is up to you.

  Peter Joseph

  Real, Thinking, Oneness

  "Zeitgeist: Addendum". Documentary, History, War, www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Spiritual, Ideas, Unity

  Henrik Ibsen (1965). “A doll's house”, p.14, Рипол Классик

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• The real revolution is the revolution of values

  Peter Joseph

  Real, Zeitgeist, Values

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• Good fashion is evolution, not revolution.

  Pierre Balmain

  Fashion, Evolution

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• I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.

  Kanye West

  French Revolution, All Time

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• The first revolution is when you change your mind

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Mind, Firsts, Changing Your Mind

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• Sheep run to the slaughterhouse, silent and hopeless, but at least sheep never vote for the butcher who kills them or the people who devour them. More beastly than any beast, more sheepish than any sheep, the voter names his own executioner and chooses his own devourer, and for this precious "right" a revolution was fought.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Running, Sheep, Names

  "Voters Strike". Short story by Octave Mirbeau, 1888.

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• Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Tomorrow, Terror, Raises

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• As we move on into this so-called biotech revolution and we start producing more and more transgenic manipulations, we'll start seeing pieces of DNA interacting with each other in ways that are totally unpredictable I think this is probably the largest biological experiment humanity has ever entered into.

  Ignacio Chapela

  Moving, Thinking, Dna

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• I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I’ve learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor.

  Jim Palmer

  Profound, Movement, I've Learned

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• The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

  Max Weber

  Religious, World, Driving

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