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Quotes About Revolution

one element in the social revolution will be "that intelligent and truly noble part of the youth which, though belonging by birth to the privileged classes, in its generous convictions and ardent aspirations, adopts the cause of the people.
~ Noam Chomsky
Power and privilege will always be attacked by smaller men who claim they have a cause. But the cause is always avarice. Whatever lofty excuse men use for war or revolution, it's always because they want the power another holds.
~ Nora Roberts
And she never had, Doug mused, because war and politics go for the big view and trample all over the little guy. France during the Revolution or a steamy pit of a jungle in Nam. It never changed. He knew just what it felt like to be helpless. He wasn't going to feel that way ever again.
~ Nora Roberts
The first moment someone calls for a revolution is usually the last moment I take them seriously.
~ Chuck Klosterman
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
What would Tyler Durden do?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Wherever we end up, I just won't go back to normal.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Nuestra generación no ha vivido una gran guerra ni una gran crisis, pero nosotros sí que estamos libran­do una gran guerra espiritual. Hemos emprendido una gran revolución contra la cultura. La gran crisis está en nuestras vidas. Sufrimos una crisis espiritual.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
But I don't want to go back. Not yet. Just because. Because every once in a while, somebody brings me my lunch tray and my meds and he has a black eye or his forehead is swollen with stitches, and he says: We miss you Mr. Durden. Or somebody with a broken nose pushes a mop past me and whispers: Everything's going according to the plan. Whispers We're going to break up civilization so we can make something better out of the world. Whispers We look forward to getting you back.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Only in death are we no longer part of project mayhem
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This was the goal of Project Mayhem, Tyler said, the complete and right-away destruction of civilization.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
La publicidad hace que compren ropas y coches que no necesitan. Generaciones y generaciones han desempeñado trabajos que odiaban para poder comprar cosas que en realidad no necesitan. Nuestra generación no ha vivido una gran guerra ni una gran crisis, pero nosotros sí que estamos librando una gran guerra espiritual. Hemos emprendido una gran revolución contra la cultura. La gran crisis está en nuestras vidas. Sufrimos una crisis espirirual.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We don't have a great war in our generation, or great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression." "We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Here was reading as a covert act of revolution carried out in plain sight but recognized as such only by other men with the book.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
DövüÅŸ kulübünün ilk kural? dövüÅŸ kulübü hakk?nda konuÅŸmamakt?r. DövüÅŸ kulübünün ikinci kural? dövüÅŸ kulübü hakk?nda konuÅŸmamakt?r.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Advertising has these people chassing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
How what looks cool later on always looks crazy at first. "If numbers could explain the physical world, words would explain the invisible one.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Gentlemen, welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Rebellions work. We've seen it. We've helped make it happen.
~ Chuck Wendig