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An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness.

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

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

A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

A revolution that does not produce a new space has not realized its full potential

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.

As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to shatter the community that was, without an adequate substitute.

A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.

A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.

Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.

But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.