“ 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- Copy
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“ Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ I have come to think of this humanist trend in psychology as a revolution in the truest, oldest sense of the word; the sense in which Galileo, Darwin, Einstein, Freud and Marx made revolutions, i.e. new ways of perceiving and thinking, new images of. ”
- Abraham Maslow- Copy
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“ I am not an absolute pacifist, because I can't rule out the possibility that under some, carefully defined circumstances, some degree of violence may be justified, if it is focused directly at a great evil. Slave revolts are justified, and if John Brown had really succeeded in arousing such revolts throughout the South, it would have been much preferable to losing 600,000 lives in the Civil War, where the makers of the war — unlike slave rebels — would not have as their first priority the plight of the black slaves, as shown by the betrayal of black interests after the war… ”
- Howard Zinn- Copy
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“ It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand. ”
- George Sand- Copy
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“ Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment. ”
- James Gould Cozzens- Copy
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“ The worst of rebels never arm To do their king or country harm, But draw their swords to do them good, As doctors cure by letting blood. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ As long as our social order regards the good of institutions rather than the good of men, so long will there be a vocation for the rebel. ”
- Richard Roberts- Copy
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“ Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. ”
- Norman Mailer- Copy
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“ Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife. ”
- Thomas Fuller- Copy
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“ You say you want a revolution, Well, you know, we all want to change the world... But when you talk about destruction, Don't you know that you can count me out. ”
- John Lennon- Copy
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“ There were speeches made in Congress in the very last session before the outbreak of the Rebellion, so ferocious as to show that their authors were under the influence of a real frenzy. ”
- Edward Everett- Copy
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“ The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. ”
- Frederick Douglass- Copy
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“ The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard. ”
- Grover Cleveland- Copy
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“ Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. ”
- Leon Trotsky- Copy
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“ Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself. ”
- Robin Williams- Copy
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“ A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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