#revolutions

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. ↗

— Karl Marx

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

— John Mortimer

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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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Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

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If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

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All revolutions devour their own children. ↗

— Ernst Rohm

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And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools. ↗

— Hu Shih

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إن من سخرية القدر أن تتدهور أحوال الناس بعد ثورة شعبية و تتحسن أحوال المسئولين عن النظام ↗

— عز الدين شكري فشير

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Revolutions are not made for export. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

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Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice. ↗

— Lee Harvey Oswald

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