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Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi.

Our Revolution was born and raised in taverns.

[O]ur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.

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

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.

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

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

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

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

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

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.

Reform is Chinas second revolution.

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

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 may not be pro-Western or democratic.

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

Revolution requires extensive and widespread destruction, a fecund and renovating destruction, since in this way and only this way are new worlds born

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed.

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

Revolutionary tactics cannot be invented by leaders; they must develop spontaneously-history comes first, leaders' consciousness second.

Revolution begins with one step

Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice

Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

Revolutionaries see history as a creation of their own spirit, as being made up of a continuous series of violent tugs at the other forces of society - both active and passive, and they prepare the maximum of favourable conditions for the definitive tug (revolution).

Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.