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The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

The most powerful force changing our society is the information revolution.

The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those that occur quietly, unnoticed, uncommemorated. We don't celebrate the day the United States Constitution was destroyed; it didn't happen on a specific date, and most Americans still don't realize it happened at all. We don't say the Constitution has ceased to exist; we merely say that it's a 'living document.' But it amounts to the same thing.

The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution.

The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.

The only solution to pollution is a people's humane revolution!

The people are the masters of the revolution in each country.

The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share.

The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.

The new course we're on at Interface ... is to pioneer the next Industrial Revolution: one that is kinder and gentler to the earth.

The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.

The peoples' revolution... will arrange its revolutionary organisation from the bottom up and from the periphery to the centre, in keeping with the principle of liberty.

The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.

The real revolution is the revolution of values

There ain't no revolution, only evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace.

the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.

There is always a price to pay for badassery. Neo was a badass in the Matrix and the Matrix Reloaded, but the price he had to pay was The Matrix Revolutions.

The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to operate.

There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there is an explosion of rising expectation. And amongst the lower strata in Iranian society, we are witnessing an increasing rise of the expectation and it's clear that the regime is incapable of satisfying these demands.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.

There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take a new and natural order.

The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet.

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews.

There is no substitute for a militant freedom.

There is not a revolution that succe Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed.

There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual.

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution.

The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them.

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.