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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 act of violence by which one class overthrows another.


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A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
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MAO TSE-TUNG Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot...
MAO TSE-TUNG A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
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FRED HAMPTON It is a lie.
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HOLLY SCHINDLER Revolution is not a dinner party.
SUN YAT-SEN Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
ERNEST MANDEL if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Every revolution ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic
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GERMANY KENT When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if...
CYNTHIA OZICK No one expected that I would be chosen as president of this party, so this is kind of a revolution i...
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI No one expected that I would be chosen as president of this party, so this is kind of a revolution i...
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI If your presence doesn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference.
TREY SMITH Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent...
FERDINAND MARCOS I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
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URSULA K. LE GUIN Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER Life is an audition.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to accept this or that...
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DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
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PAWAN MISHRA You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
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GEORGE ORWELL A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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AYN RAND Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship i...
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FRIEDRICH ENGELS Knowledge is an exceptional kind of property which cannot be lost or used up.
ERALDO BANOVAC There is nothing so strange or so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or anoth...
RENE DESCARTES A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
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DANIEL J. BOORSTIN An image . . . is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is ...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer'...
EDVARD MUNCH When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.
RICHIE NORTON Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
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MADELINE ZIMA Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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ROBERT BOLT The law is not a light for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The l...
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AYESHA N. KHAN There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or anot...
RENE DESCARTES The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is...
URSULA K. LE GUIN The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is...
URSULA K. LEGUIN The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be re...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by si...
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BERENICE ABBOTT So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.
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GARY F EVANS... Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
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CHET FAKER Some people draw a comforting distinction between force and violence. I refuse to cloud the issue by...
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RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN Revolution is a tool of the past. A revolving door for corruption. The time has come for an Evolutio...
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ERNEST MANDEL When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI An alluring woman
need not bat an eyelash
to hit a homer
and steal a man's heart.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could have made me do it, or preve...
J.K. ROWLING The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.
FRANCOIS (PIERRE GUILLAUME) GUIZOT Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking l...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Having been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go ...
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FOREST WHITAKER There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their se...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Seeing, touching is believing!
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL SEO is DEAD in the eyes of the people who know LESS about it.
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