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Revolution Quotes
Change, and the forces trying to hold it back.
This page mixes creative and political senses of revolution - a filmmaker reflecting on risky projects, and the observation that art often moves ahead of political revolution itself. See American Revolution.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
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Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.
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Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it was top down, it was based on experts, and it was big-picture.
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Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
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The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
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My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.
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We must be aware of consumerism! That's our tendency. It's the capitalistic curse that we were poisoned with. We should spend only what is necessary. How do you call the big cars, the latest ones? Hummer! Not a single dollar to import Hummers! What is that? What is that? What kind of revolution is this? One of Hummers? No way!
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The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
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Man, I would have loved to have been fully cognisant of the power of Janis Joplin. I would have loved to have been part of the revolution.
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When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in provincial obscurity.
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Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.
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The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.
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