#volution

I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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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

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. ↗

— Huey Newton

#revolution #revolutionary #you

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. ↗

— Huey Newton

#been #hands #inherit #revolution #young

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. ↗

— Huey Newton

#first #learn #lesson #man #must

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

— Kwame Nkrumah

#act #action #brought #men #revolutions

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic. ↗

— Ron Paul

#believe #changes #come #first #going

And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat. ↗

— Ernst Toller

#continue #die #hearts #revolution #spirit

Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. ↗

— Adolf Loos

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