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My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.

My friend Michael Reagan has given us the blueprint for a new Reagan revolution- and he has given Ronald Reagan back to us again. Read it, learn it, live it, love it!

My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution.

Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

National Socialism will use its own revolution for establishing of a new world order.

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them.

None but tyrants have any business to be afraid.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

No revolution without sexual revolution. No sexual revolution without homosexual revolution.

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

No revolution can be made with silk gloves.

No revolution succeeds without sacrifice.

Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.

Nothing I study makes me think we will survive this century. And yet why am I so happy? Because it's not too late. Just get off your ass and work for revolution.

Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have done everything; it is time for the rich to take their turn... The selfish people, the young idlers, must be made useful, whether they like it or not, and some respite be procured for the useful and respectable worker.

No times were more dangerous than when our country was born, when revolution was our midwife.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.

Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This has to do with the everlasting human dilemma in general: to work for a revolution and fail.

Now we are immersed in deep democratic revolutions, for the recovery of our resources, and to transform a resource into a basic human right. And that is spread around the world.

Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

One of the main reasons I wrote The Sleep Revolution was to examine this ancient, essential, and mysterious phenomenon from all angles and to explore the ways we can use sleep to help regain control over our out-of-kilter lives.

Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.

One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It is because the French Revolution is a religion and Robespierre is one of its sects. He is a priest with his flock... Robespierre preaches, Robespierre censures, he is furious, serious, melancholic and exalted with passion. He thunders against the rich and the great. He lives on little and has no physical needs. He has only one mission: to talk. And he talks all the time.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution against revolutions, the uprising of all peaceable individuals, who will become soldiers for once so that neither they nor anyone else will ever have to be a soldier again.

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

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!

Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.

On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal, When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal.

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

Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.

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