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Quotes about revolutions and revo
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Every revolution was first a thought in one mans mind. (Hoffman Abbie)
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? (Hoffman Abbie)
To be a revolutionary you have to be human being. You have to care about people who have no power. (Hoffman Abbie)
The worst of revolutions is a restoration. (Hoffman Abbie)
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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. (Hoffman Abbie)
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum. (Hoffman Abbie)
A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation. (Hoffman Abbie)
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. (Hoffman Abbie)
A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government. (Hoffman Abbie)
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. (Hoffman Abbie)
The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty. (Hoffman Abbie)
When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters. (Hoffman Abbie)
True revolutionaries are like God -- they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings. (Hoffman Abbie)
Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. (Hoffman Abbie)
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. (Hoffman Abbie)
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. (Hoffman Abbie)
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. (Hoffman Abbie)
I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute. (Hoffman Abbie)
Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles. (Hoffman Abbie)
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers. (Hoffman Abbie)
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. (Hoffman Abbie)
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind. (Hoffman Abbie)
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. (Hoffman Abbie)
Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such massive moments of truth, moments of such massive participation. (Hoffman Abbie)
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure. (Hoffman Abbie)
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