"Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder."
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"The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible"
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"The Revolution is made by man, but man must forge his revolutionary spirit from day to day."
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"Give me time and I'll give you a revolution."
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"You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
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"Those who are inclined to compromise never make a revolution."
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"One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."
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"The revolutionary war is a war of the masses; it can be waged only by mobilizing the masses and relying on them."
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"A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having."
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"Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!"
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"Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national socialism: the downward curve of the revolution gave rise to Stalinism, not to the theory of the permanent revolution, which was first formulated by me in 1905. This theory is not bound to a definite calendar of revolutionary events; it only reveals the world-wide interdependence of the revolutionary process."
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"I'm going to stop a revolution,'' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me."
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"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."
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"All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable."
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"Reform is Chinas second revolution."
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"If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together."
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"Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."
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"By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life"
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"I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next."
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"Revolutions are always verbose."
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