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• Its assimilation requires the reconstruction of prior theory and re-evaluation of prior fact, an intrinsically revolutionary process that is seldom completed a single man and never overnight

  Thomas Kuhn

  Men, Evaluation, Facts

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• People say that poverty is bad, but in fact poverty is good. The poorer people are, the more revolutionary they are. It is dreadful to imagine a time when everyone will be rich... From a surplus of calories people will have two heads and four legs.

  Mao Zedong

  Two, People, Legs

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• It’s not cool. I think being a wealthy member of the establishment is the antithesis of cool. Being a countercultural revolutionary is cool. So to the extent that you’ve made a billion dollars, you’ve probably become uncool.

  Sean Parker

  Thinking, Dollars, Made

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• To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives.

  Erica Jong

  Husband, Names, Wife

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 16, 2012

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• Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stars, Father, War

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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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• The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Trying, Realizing

  Carl Gustav Jung (1938). “Psychology and Religion”

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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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• 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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• When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.

  George Orwell

  Gun, Heroism, Mouths

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  West, Revolution, Illusion

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• Russians are too kind, they lack the ability to apply determined methods of revolutionary terror.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Determined, Kind, Method

  "Lenin: Life and Legacy" by Dmitri Volkogonov, (p. 203), 1994.

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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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• Whoever hesitates while waiting for ideas to triumph among the masses before initiating revolutionary action will never be a revolutionary... Humanity will, of course, change; human society will, of course, continue to develop - in spite of men and the errors of men. But that is not a revolutionary attitude.

  Fidel Castro

  Attitude, Men, Errors

  Fidel Castro's speech at the closing of the first conference of OLAS in Havana’s Chaplin Theater, www.marxists.org. August 10, 1967.

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• Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state.

  Phillip Lopate

  Running, Party, Night

  Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.146, Basic Books

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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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• If I have called Cubism a new order, it is without any revolutionary ideas or any reactionary ideas... One cannot escape from one's own epoch, however revolutionary one may be.

  Georges Braque

  Order, Ideas, May

  "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.

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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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