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• If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?

  Anton Chekhov

  Funny, Failure, Communication

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• ...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789... gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf's friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Ideas, Order

  Karl Marx (1975). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: 1844-45”, International Pub

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• ...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Order, Political

  Karl Marx (2015). “Manifesto of the Communist Party”, p.40, Booklassic

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• Democritus's work on the void was revolutionary.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Void

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The planet's hope and salvation lies in the adoption of revolutionary new knowledge being revealed at the frontiers of science.

  Bruce H. Lipton

  Lying, Adoption, Salvation

  "Has Modern Science Bankrupted Our Souls?" by Bruce Lipton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Life tests the big dreamers the Passionate revolutionaries.

  Robin S

  Dreamer, Passionate, Tests

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• In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.

  Lin Biao

  Latin, Struggle, People

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• Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats. But not when it guillontines whoever is individual, superior, or just different.

  Peter Viereck

  Government, Democracy, Trying

  Peter Viereck (1950). “Conservatism Revisited”, p.72, Transaction Publishers

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• You've got to give kids really beautiful children's books in order to turn them into revolutionaries. Because if they see these beautiful things when they're young, when they grow up they'll see the real world and say, 'Why is the world so ugly?! I remember when the world was beautiful.' And then they'll fight, and they'll have a revolution. They'll fight against all of our corruption in the world, they'll fight to try to make the world more beautiful. That's the job of a good children's book illustrator.

  Tony Millionaire

  Beautiful, Jobs, Children

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• The single most revolutionary thing you can do is recognize that you are enough.

  Carlos Andres Gomez

  Enough, Can Do

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• To be truly happy in this world is a revolutionary act...It is a radical change of view that liberates us so that we know who we are most deeply and can acknowledge our enormous ability to love.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Views, World, Who We Are

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• Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections.

  Ron Paul

  Play, Reform, Roles

  Ron Paul's Farewell Speech to Congress, www.infowars.com. November 15, 2012.

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• The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless.

  Russell Kirk

  Thinking, Order, Justice

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Politics of Prudence”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• Do not allow yourself to imagine that revolutionary thinking can be propagated by governmental power.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Thinking, Imagine, Mental Power

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• When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.

  Serj Tankian

  Soul, Listening, Bees

  "Serj Tankian: Alternative Rock’s Political Poet". Interview with Gary Moskowitz, www.motherjones.com. November 9, 2007.

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• Almost everyone who has had an idea that's somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they're insane.

  Larry Page

  Successful, Ideas, Innovation

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• We must not return to the practice of hiding our defects so they may not be seen. That would be neither honest nor revolutionary.

  Che Guevara

  Wise, Practice, Would Be

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• No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward a time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction cannot lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient than those of our Revolutionary ancestors.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Equality, Rights, Ideas

  "Foundations of the Republic; Speeches and Addresses". Book by Calvin Coolidge, 1926.

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• Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means - speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point; to accelerate revolutionary development.

  Johann Most

  Mean, Writing, Deeds

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• With every passing year we discover more evidence to support Darwin's revolutionary hypothesis that the cognitive and emotional lives of animals differ only by degree, from the fishes to the birds to the monkeys to humans.

  Roger Fouts

  Nature, Animal, Emotional

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• I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers.

  Fidel Castro

  War, Movement, Fawns

  Fidel Castro's announcement of his resignation as Prime Minister, July 17, 1959.

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• At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction and the favorable conditions constitute the secondary aspect. But through their efforts the revolutionaries can overcome the difficulties step by step and open up a favorable new situation, thus a difficult situation yields place to a favorable one.

  Mao Zedong

  Struggle, Yield, Difficult Situations

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.104, Lulu.com

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• Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. The crypto-businessman is the true revolutionary in a Communist country.

  Eric Hoffer

  Country, Rebellious, Environment

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• A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.

  Alasdair MacIntyre

  Political, Doctrine, World

  Alasdair MacIntyre (2003). “A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the 20th Century”, p.162, Routledge

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• Hungry people make the best revolutionaries. Because when you're hungry, it's easy to get angry about things that aren't right.

  Staceyann Chin

  People, Hungry, Easy

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