#revolutions

Revolutions are the locomotives of history. ↗

— Karl Marx

#revolutions

All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#chiefly #come #eliot #history #i

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

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All revolutions devour their own children. ↗

— Ernst Rohm

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إن من سخرية القدر أن تتدهور أحوال الناس بعد ثورة شعبية و تتحسن أحوال المسئولين عن النظام ↗

— عز الدين شكري فشير

#policy #revolutions #life

Revolutions are not made for export. ↗

— Nikita Khrushchev

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Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice. ↗

— Lee Harvey Oswald

#certain #included #our #own #rationing

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority. ↗

— Hu Shih

#authority #breakdown #mean #old #revolutions

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it. ↗

— George Farquhar

#fortunes #get #government #heads #hearts