"I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME."
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"Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well."
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"Ron Paul's revolution isn't a fluke. It's the future."
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"This is a revolution, damn it! We're going to have to offend somebody!"
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"Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle."
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"The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share."
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"Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society."
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"Revolution is but thought carried into action."
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"I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want."
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"Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it."
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"Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur."
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"In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by."
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"All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour."
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"Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask."
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"The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible."
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"It's the occasion that makes the revolution."
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"There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile."
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"Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables."
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"Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely."
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"The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent."
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