#revolutions

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

— Georges Jacques Danton

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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. ↗

— Georges Jacques Danton

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It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game. ↗

— Courtney Love

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Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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Revolutions are the locomotives of history. ↗

— Karl Marx

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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. ↗

— John Mortimer

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The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power. ↗

— Mohammed Morsi

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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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