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Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918.

Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

Congress is responsible for everything and unable to do anything, hated by the public creditors, insulted by the soldiers and unsupported by the citizens.

Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

Cooking is revolution and creation.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.

Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action.

Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

Dwarfs can make revolutions easier than giants, because theirs will be unexpected!

Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which these new industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?

During my performances, I don't like folks to take pictures because I feel that we live in a very photographic time. Photography was invented over 100 years ago, and now it's at its peak because everyone has a camera. The fact that they are taking experiences and filtering them through a mechanical lens I find amazing, but also disheartening. Amazing when you have photographs that start revolutions. Disheartening when you have people making photographs but not living.

Education is the motor-force of revolution.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the industrial revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

Enclosures have been appropriately called a revolution of the rich against the poor.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them.

Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

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

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.

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

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

France is ready for a European revolution and it is Germany that is pulling the brakes. For a long time, it was the other way around. You don't have to agree with the details of every single one of Emmanuel Macron's suggestions, but he's right about the idea of a new foundation of Europe. Europe's Social Democrats have long demanded this. If we really want to, we can create a different, better Europe in the coming years.