#revolution

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#alternatives #before #best #conservatives #determine

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. ↗

— Georges Jacques Danton

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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#dinner party #doing #embroidery #essay #painting

The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia. ↗

— Herman Gorter

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Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived. ↗

— Ismail Haniyeh

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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. ↗

— Warren G. Harding

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There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions. ↗

— Reed Hastings

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Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#fails #great #hearts #people #revolution

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#country #depths #enactment #gamble #going