Quotes with counter-revolutionary

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  • Erich Fromm The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. III, POWER AND LIBERTY A THEORY OF POLITICS, p
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Emma Goldman The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Carol Gilligan The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
    Carol Gilligan
    American feminist, ethicist and psychologist (1936 - )
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  • Edith Hamilton Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
    Edith Hamilton
    American educator and author (1867 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Belle Boyd There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.
    Belle Boyd
    American Confederate spy (1844 - 1900)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Abraham Lincoln This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Aldous Huxley This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bertrand Russell Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Jane Fonda To be a revolutionary you have to be human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
    Jane Fonda
    American actress, writer, political activist and former fashion model (1937 - )
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  • Bell Hooks To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.
    Ending Racism Killing Rage
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Billie Burke To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera tenor, and the physical stamina of a cow pony.
    Billie Burke
    American actress (1884 - 1970)
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  • Antonio Gramsci To tell the truth is revolutionary.
    Antonio Gramsci
    Italian writer, politician and political scientist (1891 - 1937)
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  • Bernard Crick Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 6, A Defence of Politics Against False Friends
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • George Orwell We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Adrienne Rich We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Bennie Thompson We must maximize our efforts to counter violent extremism, radicalization and recruitment in the United States and stop using xenophobia and ethnic stereotyping.
    Bennie Thompson
    American politician (1948 - )
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