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• I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Class, People, India

  "A home for Mr Naipaul". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2004.

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• To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves.

  Ahmed Sekou Toure

  Fashion, Song, Writing

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• We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

  Christopher Lasch

  Addict

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• People often say, "Riots aren't revolutions." That's true. The vast majority of riots never become revolutionary. On the other hand, show me the revolution that started without a riot.

  Joshua Clover

  People, Revolution, Show Me

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• Although such research [into the paranormal] has yet to produce anything in the way of a repeatable controlled experiment, its practitioners argue that its revolutionary potentialities justify its continuation. My own feeling is that after a century of total failure it has become a bloody bore.

  Dennis Flanagan

  Failure, Science, Feelings

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• By the end, everybody had a label - pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.

  Jerry Rubin

  Gun, Pigs, Labels

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• When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Real, Trouble, Real Food

  "The Last Diet You Will Ever Need" by Mark Hyman, M.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2012.

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• It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Religious, Mind, Revolution

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• Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mother, Children, Two

  Gloria Steinem (1986). “Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions”, New Amer Library

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• Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Music, Writing, Self

  Leonard Bernstein (2007). “The Infinite Variety of Music”, p.272, Amadeus Press

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• It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Angel, Heaven, Wish

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ideas, Revolution, Spirit

  Joseph Conrad (2013). “Some Reminicscences”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

  Rita Mae Brown

  America, Revolution, Used

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• Abraham Lincoln was not all brooding and melancholy and patient understanding. There was a hard core in him, and plenty of toughness. He could recognize a revolutionary situation when he saw one, and he could act fast and ruthlessly to meet it.

  Bruce Catton

  Understanding, Saws, Patient

  Bruce Catton (2011). “This Hallowed Ground: A History of the Civil War”, p.27, Vintage

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• Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

  Lillian Hellman

  People, Rebel, Unions

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• The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Revolution, Mass

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1977). “Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung”, Pergamon

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• My agent called and said, 'How do you feel about a pirate movie? I mean, how often are you going to get that call? It's sort of the singularly most failed genre of our time, but I thought it had to be attempted one more time. I think there's something rebellious about pirates, something revolutionary about them. They came out of a time when things were oppressive; you could get hung for stealing a loaf of bread. For me, the Pirates films are about when it's right to break the rules to achieve what you want.

  Gore Verbinski

  Mean, Thinking, Pirate

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• Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Leader, Tactics, Firsts

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• My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Impact, Intuition, Balls

  "A Probe For Fine Structure Of Biologic Systems". Rosalyn Sussman Yalow's Nobel Lecture in Stockholm, Sweden, December 8, 1977.

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• One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.

  Che Guevara

  Waiting, Doe, Revolution

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• I can walk about London and see a society that seems an absolutely revolutionary change from the 1950s, that seems completely and utterly different, and then I can pick up on something where you suddenly see that it's not.

  Penelope Lively

  Different, London, Walks

  "I'm not a historian but I can get obsessively interested in the past". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2001.

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• But I think the bomb instead constitutes merely a first step in a new control by man over the forces of nature too revolutionary and dangerous to fit into old concepts.

  Henry L. Stimson

  Men, Thinking, Bombs

  Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.416, Read Books Ltd

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• This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.

  Alexander Herzen

  Struggle, Play, Roles

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• Some of the greatest, most revolutionary advances in science have been given their initial expression in attractively modest terms, with no fanfare.

  Daniel Dennett

  Expression, Given, Modest

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• Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.

  Daniel Dennett

  Religious, Phones, Way

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