"We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press."
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"You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves."
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"I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute."
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"Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself."
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"I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed."
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"We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our transformation."
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"The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have."
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"The ones who close the path for peacefull revolution, at the same time open the path for violent revolution."
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"It takes a revolution, to create a solution"
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"Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity."
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"In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one"
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"The revolution has its own laws: in the period of its culmination it pushes the most highly developed, determined and far-seeing stratum of the revolutionary class to the most advanced positions."
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"Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly."
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"The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible."
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"Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his."
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"The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975."
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"Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants."
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"We Marxists believe that revolution will occur in other countries, as well. But it will occur at a time when it will be considered possible or necessary by revolutionaries of those countries."
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"The revolution is made through human beings, but individuals must forge their revolutionary spirit day by day"
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"Tomorrow the revolution will already 'raise itself with a rattle' and announce with fanfare, to your terror: I was, I am, I will be!"
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