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This particular May morning begins with the appearance of a procession on the corner of Pancake and Rosa Luxemburg Streets. The procession is evidently religious: it consists of eight clerical personages, well known to the entire town. But instead of censers, the clerical personages are swinging brooms, which transfers the entire action from the plane of religion to the plane of revolution. These personages are now simply unproductive elements of society performing their labor duty for the benefit of the people. Instead of prayers, golden clouds of dust rise to the heavens. ("X")


Yevgeny Zamyatin


#priest #russian-revolution #religion

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!


Mehmet Murat ildan


#respect

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.


Jennifer Donnelly


#history #kings #presidents #revolution #president

Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.


Frantz Fanon


#politics #psychology #revolution #ignorance

Finally, the intercom crackles and Hatmitch's acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, 'And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.


Suzanne Collins


#humour #revolution

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.


George Orwell


#revolution

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.


Jennifer Donnelly


#history #revolution

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.


Benjamin Franklin


#revolution

[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.


Michael Moore


#librarians #revolution






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