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Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

For the United States, the ACA is a revolution, an enormous set of changes that many see as a huge step forward and many others see as a wrong turn.

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

France is ready for a European revolution and it is Germany that is pulling the brakes. For a long time, it was the other way around. You don't have to agree with the details of every single one of Emmanuel Macron's suggestions, but he's right about the idea of a new foundation of Europe. Europe's Social Democrats have long demanded this. If we really want to, we can create a different, better Europe in the coming years.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having occurred in the physical state of the earth's surface.

From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constituted authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by product of revolution, it was the source of energy.

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

He wasn't someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, Communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all of its grisly horror.

How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.

However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion.

Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered.

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.

History is a relay of revolutions.

Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.

I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.

I believe in permanent revolution.

I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!

I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

I didn't like doing predictions. It's certainly true that right now - and this could change tomorrow - but, right now there is no clear way for Putin to lose power. There seems little chance that a street revolution could unseat him; that's just not how things are going to work in Russia. And it seems as if the very tiny number of people who control the economy and who control politics in Russia are loyal to him.

I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came so late. Hitler had already found out how to cure unemployment before Keynes had finished explaining why it occured.

If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington.

I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.