Quotes with pre-revolutionary

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  • Henry Miller Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Albert Camus Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible. (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing. (3) I said it was a good idea all along.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Simon Gray Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it.
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  • C. L. R. James First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Aeschines For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
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  • Aaron C. Brown From the lottery to raise the funds for the founding of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607 to the lottery used to pay the interest on Dutch loans to the United States during the Revolutionary War, the development of the United States was funded by gambling.
    The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006) Ch. 4
    Aaron C. Brown
    American finance practitioner (1956 - )
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  • William S. Gilbert I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Buzz Osborne I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini I owe most to Georges Sorel. This master of syndicalism by his rough theories of revolutionary tactics has contributed most to form the discipline, energy and power of the fascist cohorts.
    Quoted in The New Inquistions by Arthur Versluis
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Assata Shakur I think that the greatest betrayal that a revolutionary can participate in is to become like the people you are struggling against. To become like your persecutors. I think that is a betrayal and a sin.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Abbie Hoffman I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Anne Perry I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • Bobby Seale I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Erica Jong If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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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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  • Anton Chekhov If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Anton Chekhov If you cry ''Forward'' you must be sure to make clear the direction in which to go. Don't you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely opposite directions?
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • A. J. Muste In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist.
    Chomsky - American Power and the New Mandarins (2002) p. 160
    A. J. Muste
    Dutch-born American clergyman and political activist
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