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When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

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Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge. ↗

— Francesco Guicciardini

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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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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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Revolutions are always verbose. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

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No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. ↗

— George Sand

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As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

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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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