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• One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

  George Orwell

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  Tags in Dictatorship, Revolution

• I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.

  George A. Romero

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• The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

  Bryan Edgar Magee

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• This is a revolution, damnit! We’re going to have to offend somebody!

  Peter Stone

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• To tell the truth is revolutionary.

  Antonio Gramsci

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• Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

  Ignazio Silone

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  Tags in Revolution, Against

• I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.

  Ian Hamilton Finlay

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• Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

  David Bohm

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• A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

  Daniel Berrigan

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• If I had my way, I would have s*x, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll at least 4-6 hours a day. So long as there are going to be things in the way of that, we’re going to have a revolution.

  Perry Farrell

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• Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

  Dario Fo

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• The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.

  Bob Schaffer

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  Tags in Revolution, Government

• Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.

  Frederick Pollock

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• We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

  Frederica Montseny

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• We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

  Frederica Montseny

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• You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.

  Fred Hampton

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• Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

  Franz Kafka

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• The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

  Paul Cézanne

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• The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.

  Bianca Jagger

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• We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels… I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.

  Bernie Sanders

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  Tags in Energy, Revolution