#revolutions

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments." [On Water] ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

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All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water? ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

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I see only adaptations - not revolutions. ↗

— Gordon Getty

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Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water? ↗

— Francis Bond Head

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We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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