#revolutions

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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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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All revolutions devour their own children. ↗

— Ernst Rohm

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Revolutions are born of hope. ↗

— Crane Brinton

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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 not made for export. ↗