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“And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.”
“You are asking me to give up everything for a cause that isn't mine. I don't want to be part of any revolution. I just want to live.”
“Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.”
“So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.”
“But when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out.”
“By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.The foe long since in silence slept;Ali...”
“In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should pointout to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions isnot that they devour humanity but rather tha...”
“The radicals assumed that acting was more important than speaking. Talking and writing books, Winstanley insisted, is 'all nothing and must die; for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not ...”
“Every moment is a fresh new beginning, a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.”
“Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.”
“The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution.”
“Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.”
“The revolution goes on; a man does not make the revolution, not a thousand men, not an army and not a party; the revolution comes from the people as they reach toward God, and a little of God is in...”
“Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel h...”
“The difference between force and persuation is a subtile one not to be drawn by formulas, by force, by science, or textbooks but by men skilled in the art of ruling”
“They became actual revolutions instead of mere discussions, complaints and rioting, only after revolutionists had beaten, or won over, the armed forces of the government”
“It is almost safe to say that no government is likely to be overthrown until it loses the ability to make adequate use of its military.”
“He seemed to have established in his mind an affinity between the two great passions of his life pale ale and revolution and assuredly he could not taste the one without dreaming of the other.”
“So, with all this time on my hands, I decided to start a revolution.”
“These revolutions are born of hope, and their philosophies are formally optimistic.”
