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Quotes About Revolution

There as yet to be a revolution where those who served it have not eventually been eaten
~ Dean Cavanagh
Originally, I had planned to study tourism and revolution, which seemed to me to name the two poles of modern consciousness--a willingness to accept, even venerate, things as they are on the one hand, a desire to transform things on the other.
~ Dean MacCannell
Once machines performed all the servile functions formerly performed by the lower classes, the population immediately achieved equality, ending over ten thousand years of class systems.
~ Charles Edward Stoll
The future of work revolution begins one person at a time.
~ Bill Jensen, Future Strong
Disobedience to rigid laws is a revolutionary act.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Anak muda adalah kegelisahan derap langkahnya adalah perubahan.
~ E.S. Ito, Negara Kelima
We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary.
~ Robert M. Drake
True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.
~ David Gerrold
Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.
~ Mason Cooley
The big honour of the big revolutions belongs to the high intelligence who design the revolution, not to the masses who support and participate the revolution!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
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.
~ Freya Stark
Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
~ George Orwell
la primera teórica de la informática, Ada Lovelace, la matemática que a principios del siglo XIX sentó las bases de las calculadoras mecánicas y predijo que pronto dominarían el mundo. Le pareció que estaba muy bien escrito.
~ Javier Sierra
The great revolution in psychiatry has solved few problems… One wonders how long the hoary errors of Freud will continue to plague psychiatry. 1 Patients, failing to recover after years of analysis and thousands of dollars later, have also been wondering about the boasts of psychiatry. Some, getting worse, have begun to suspect that many of their problems are iatrogenic (that is, treatment induced).
~ Jay E. Adams
A king had to die so a republic could live.
~ Jay Winik
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~ Jay Winik
The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Seen from this perspective, the sexual revolution is to the family what Communism is to the market. Both entail statist assaults on core institutions of civil society, leading to human misery that the state is not equipped to put right. In both cases, what results from the erosion of a core institution is a citizenry ill-equipped to be self-governing; accordingly, state power inevitably grows.
~ Jean Bethke Elshtain
Exist? în istoria oamenilor revolu?ii private are nu sunt cu nimic mai prejos, în ceea ce prive?te profunzimea ?i r?sturn?rile pe care le antreneaz?, decât revolu?iile publice.
~ Jean d'Ormesson
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
~ Jean Genet
What we need is hatred, from it our ideas are born
~ Jean Genet
Parents have always noticed how their children's world differs from the world of their own childhood, but what is happening now regarding sex and sexuality in the media and popular culture goes far beyond the changes that have occurred between other generations in the past. A revolution is taking place that we need to take seriously.
~ Jean Kilbourne
The explosion of the grenade in his dug-out made him take leave of the Greco-Latin-Christian civilized world. When he regained consciousness he was on the other side... among the Communists.
~ Jean Lartéguy
Day by day, month by month, doubt by doubt, law and order became fascism; education, constraint; work, alienation; revolution, mere sport; leisure, a privilege of class; marijuana, a harmless weed; family, a stifling hothouse; affluence, oppression; success, a social disease; sex, an innocent pastime; youth, a permanent tribunal; maturity, the new senility; discipline, an attack on personality; Christianity... and the West... and white skin...
~ Jean Raspail