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It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. (Quote by - Lenin, Vladimir)

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution. (Quote by - James Lovelock)

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)

Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. (Quote by - Abbie Hoffman)

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. (Quote by - Edward Bulwer-Lytton)

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. (Quote by - Raoul Vaneigem)

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. (Quote by - Huey Newton)

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. (Quote by - Eugene Ionesco)

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny. (Quote by - Hugo Black )

The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class. (Quote by - William Whyte Jr)

Many of the worlds troubles are not due just to Russia or communism. They would be with us in any event because we live in an era of revolution--the revolution of rising expectations. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection. (Quote by - Bianca Jagger)

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically. (Quote by - Marvin Harris)

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution. (Quote by - Francis Parkman)

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, youd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. (Quote by - Karel Capek)

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848. (Quote by - C. L. R. James)

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. (Quote by - Mercy Otis Warren)

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying. (Quote by - Ernest Mandel)

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. (Quote by - Lawrence Lessig)

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes. (Quote by - Stephen Sondheim)

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind. (Quote by - Daisaku Ikeda)

Theres nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didnt abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)

Revolutions never go backward. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of variation much as if measure lengths were concrete musical material. (Quote by - Brian Ferneyhough)

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