Quotes with counter-revolution

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  • Alma Guillermoprieto I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news.
    Alma Guillermoprieto
    Mexican journalist
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  • Andre Norton I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.
    Andre Norton
    American writer of science fiction (1912 - 2005)
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  • Emma Goldman If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Pat Buchanan If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.
    Pat Buchanan
    American politician author and columnist (1938 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Billy Collins If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Campbell Brown In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bernard Bailyn In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 302
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Martin Luther King In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Aldous Huxley Industrial man -a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ferdinand E. Marcos It is easier to run a revolution than a government.
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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • C. J. Cherryh Jane leaned back against the counter and stared at the ceiling. At the traditional location of God, no matter what the planet.
    Cyteen (1988)
    C. J. Cherryh
    American writer (1942 - )
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  • Bill Ayers Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
    Bill Ayers
    American elementary education theorist (1944 - )
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  • Karl Marx Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite!
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Many of the greatest Cuban boxing champions since the revolution triumphed on the island resisted the temptation to leave Cuba and, in some cases, defied any suggestion they were tempted in the first place. Most famously, Teofilo Stevenson rejected multi-million dollar offers to leave his island to fight Muhammad Ali.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Albert Camus Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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