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

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.

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

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

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 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.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily rich. It is widely held in high regard.

Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation.

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.