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“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an...” Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
“Yet a revolution cannot begin until the diffuse, private indignation of individuals coalesces into a common cause.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” George Orwell, 1984
“The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.” George Orwell, 1984
“a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
“If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, call it To-morrow.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” Aristotle, Politics
“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.” Aristotle, Politics
“REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“Fashions have wrought more harm than revolutions.” Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“Human rights did not begin with the French Revolution…” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
“The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside. For them the earth is not an exploitable ground but the living mother.” James Joyce, Ulysses
“Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,—that the human race has been treated harshly, but that it has progressed.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“I do not object to Socialism because it will revolutionize our commerce, but because it will leave it so horribly the same.” G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
“In revolutions the occasions may be trifling, but great interests are at stake.” Aristotle, Politics
“If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.” George Orwell, 1984
“Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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