"Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment."
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"Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are now before us. We are in the very midst of a revolution the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations."
"Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialism and the proletarian revolution."
"The cities of the world are concentric, isomorphic, synchronic. Only one exists and you are always in the same one. It's the effect of their permanent revolution, their intense circulation, their instantaneous magnetism."
"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."
"The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine."
"There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews."
"As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet."
"Revolution is the larva of civilization."
"If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow."
"Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions"
"It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people."
"Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass."
"Sovereignty is not negotiated in exchange for anything; to maintain the achievements of the revolution does not depend on a foreign power."
"Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices."
"Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!"
"Look back at history - those who guided the revolution in the time of its culmination never kept their leading positions long after the turning point."
"It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions."
"Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!"
"No revolution can be made with silk gloves."