#revolution

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom. ↗

— James Buchan

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Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#devours #like #own #revolution #saturn

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays. ↗

— Eric Cantona

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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. ↗

— Karel Capek

#destroy #end #even #except #first

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

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution. ↗

— Scott Cook

#day #first #internet #minutes #revolution

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past. ↗

— John Corigliano

#destroy #everything #french #french revolution #modernist

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. ↗

— Georges Jacques Danton

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