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Over the last few decades, I've grown more skeptical about a few things in which I used to have more faith. I believe as much in the necessity of, and the possibility of, revolution as I ever did. At the same time, I've grown more skeptical about poetry's role in it or art's contribution to it, and I've grown more skeptical about the university. Universities are big companies, and they're disciplinary in the way that any big institution is. I've found that the political militancy that the professoriate has mostly been fairly repressive of what I take to be necessary politics.

Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality. Because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.

People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830

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.

People say that ideas aren't important in business. Okay, people say, maybe an idea for a new product, but the rest is all execution, making it happen. Not so. As the strategy revolution demonstrated, ideas can be the key tools for making your business competitive.

People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Reform is Chinas second revolution.

Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.

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

Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.

Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good... the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.

Real Revolution Starts At Learning, If You're Not Angry, Then You Are Not Paying Attention.

Restricting too personal, and therefore prejudiced, interpretation leads to revolution - the fusion of an inner and outer reality derived from the wholeness of life - sublimating things seen into things known.

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.

Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Revolution, total revolution, implies experimenting with the impossible. And when an individual takes a step in the direction of the new, the impossible, the whole human race travels through that individual.

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.

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

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

Revolution is the industry of young men.

Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

Revolutions are not exportable: revolutions are created by oppressive conditions which Latin American countries exercise against their peoples.

Revolutions usually start with enthusiasm and end in tears.

'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.

Revolution was written into the U.S. Constitution so it's like they're in a constant state of revolution. But then again, happiness is written into their constitution as well, which makes them pretty unique.

Revolution ain't nothing but an extent of evolution; Evolution is a fact of nature. So when old folks tell me that they don't understand hip hop and the music is too loud, well I guess it means you're not supposed to be in there.

Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.

Revolutions are always verbose.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Revolutions are not made for export.