Quotes with revolutions

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  • Victor Hugo The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Charles James Fox The worst of revolutions is a restoration.
    Charles James Fox
    British statesman (1749 - 1806)
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  • Arthur Erickson There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Socrates Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • George Farquhar We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
    George Farquhar
    Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Eric Hoffer We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Heinrich Heine Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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