#revolutions

Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing. ↗

— Georges Sorel

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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. ↗

— William Godwin

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

— Nicolas Chamfort

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Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

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Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. ↗

— Pierre Boulez

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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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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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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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There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

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