Quotes with counter-revolution

Quotes 101 till 120 of 167.

  • Boris Johnson The excitement is growing so much I think the Geiger counter of Olympo-mania is going to go zoink off the scale.
    On the forthcoming London Olympic Games. Daily Telegraph, 27 July 2012.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Bobby Seale The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Bell Hooks The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution. --From Women, Art, and Society: Fourth Edition (2007) by Whitney Chadwick
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Britt Daniel The Futurists were an art movement in the early 20th century which basically glorified machines and the Industrial Revolution.
    Britt Daniel
    American musician (1971 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bernard Bailyn The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640's, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 198
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • C. L. R. James The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Eric Hoffer The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Jean Genet The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Hannah Arendt The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Eugene Debs The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
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  • Hannah Arendt The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Barry Lam The next revolution, the next trend is to be an intelligence-intensive company. That has more value to society than a labor-intensive company.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
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  • A. A. Milne The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Abbie Hoffman The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Anna Quindlen The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Fidel Castro The revolution ... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
    Fidel Castro
    Cuban revolutionary and politician (1926 - 2016)
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  • Huey Newton The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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