Quotes: revolutions
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Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant
1870-1965
During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
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Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
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All graffiti is low-level dissent, but stencils have an extra history. They've been used to start revolutions and to stop wars.
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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
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John Mortimer
English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author
1923-2009
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
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History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.
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I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.
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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
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No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.
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Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.
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Revolutions are not made for export.
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