"Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning."
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"The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom."
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"I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country."
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"Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power."
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"Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job."
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"By revolution we become more ourselves, not less."
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"Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other."
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"Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror."
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"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."
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"How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable."
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"[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution."
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"People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830"
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"Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it."
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"Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution."
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"Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all."
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"It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil."
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"What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution was a correct strategy."
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"Concord River is remarkable for the gentleness of its current, which is scarcely perceptible, and some have referred to its influence the proverbial moderation of the inhabitants of Concord, as exhibited in the Revolution, and on later occasions."
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"It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution."
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"It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous."
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