#revolution

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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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

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

— John Corigliano

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At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. ↗

— Georges Jacques Danton

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You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it. ↗

— Lady Gaga

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Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, Mr Wheatley, that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself. ↗

— King George V

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But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically. ↗

— Marvin Harris

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True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

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

— Heinrich Heine

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