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Quotes About Revolution

Submission to something you didn't preach yourself is no good, I quote. Because Man must burst his ridiculous bonds, which consist of what is supposedly current reality with a prospect of a future reality of scarcely any greater value.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
The prevalent fashion has been to proclaim the latest revolution as the herald of a new day, and the newest turbulence as the necessary and beneficent prelude to an epoch of orderliness and justice.
~ Elie Kedourie
The development of the Watt governor for steam engines, which adapted the power output of the engine automatically to the load by means of feedback, consolidated the first Industrial Revolution.
~ Anthony Stafford Beer
With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
~ Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud
I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
~ Antonin Artaud
Sed revolucionarios sin preconizar incoherencias, afanaos en cualquier revolución que no sea regresiva; reconoced la espontaneidad de la naturaleza, y confiad en la libertad humana como cauce primario para mejorar nuestra suerte. Mucho mejor que confiaros a tutelas dirigistas, delegando vuestra responsabilidad en timoneles mesiánicos, defended unas reglas de juego que creen libertad en vez de recortarla.
~ Antonio Escohotado
History is at once freedom and necessity.
~ Antonio Gramsci
This book is like a supreme car which can drive the world to a new horizon. N.DAS Humans declared themselves masters of their own lives,producers of cities and history,and inventor of heaven.Antonio Negri[EMPIRE]
~ Antonio Negri
As the position of the letter 'i' changes in the MARiTAL, it becomes MARTiAL.
~ Anuj Somany
BaÅŸkald?r? öncesiz ve sonras?z olarak bir tek aÅŸktan, ÅŸiirden doÄŸar.
~ Aragon
The growing number of students who have not only identified the problem of sleep deprivation but are actively taking part in its solution is a key driver of the sleep revolution. This
~ Arianna Huffington
The mother of revolution and crime is poverty.
~ Aristotle
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.
~ Aristotle
Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.
~ Aristotle
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.
~ Aristotle
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
~ Aristotle
We can fight fire with water provided we can get it there soon enough. But often we act when it's too late. The result is splattered in the pages of our history: bloodbaths, uprisings, revolutions, you name. And on it goes. We learn so slowly. After so many centuries, we're still a people who eat fire and drink water.' 'Why bother,then?' 'Because we have to believe that one day we'll learn.
~ Arlene J. Chai
On January 12, on a firing range located in a small valley called San Juan, at the end of the island in the province of Oriente, hundreds of soldiers from the defeated army of Batista had been lined up in a trench knee-deep and more than fifty yards long. Their hands were tied behind their backs, and they were machine-gunned there where they stood. Then with bulldozers the trenches were turned into mass graves. There had been no trial of any kind for those men.
~ Armando Valladares
Guilty and innocent alike fell before the firing squads. In the mountains when government troops captured some of the alzados, the alzados would be shot down where they were captured, and doctors of forensic medicine would cut open their abdomens to try to find the rest of the guerrilla groups by seeing what the contents of the dead men's stomachs were and determining where such food might be found.
~ Armando Valladares
The machinery of the Revolution was not to be halted, and like Saturn it devoured its own children.
~ Armando Valladares
It's true — we have no proof, or rather no concrete proof, against you. But we do have the conviction that you are a potential enemy of the Revolution. For us, that is enough.
~ Armando Valladares
With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
~ Arnold Beichman
But it was not forgotten that an outside historical influence is never the ultimate reason for an intellectual revolution, for such an influence can become effective only if the preconditions fro its reception are already in existence.
~ Arnold Hauser
the change is at hand-the old order is cracking. It has been said that 'the cure for democracy is more democracy
~ Art Young