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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
- Nov 07, 2020
We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
- American Revolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
The removal of the British after the American Revolution opened the floodgates of paramilitary ranger power. For instance, in 1786, ranger units, including one that included Daniel Boone, attacked a number of friendly Shawnee towns along the Mad River.
- CIA
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1960s, after the Cuban Revolution, CIA and FBI agents often coordinated their activities with anti-Castro Cuban exiles.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Haiti and the Dominican Republic don't just share an island, Hispaniola, but a history, one that includes all the signal events that went into creating the modern world: Columbus, conquest, genocide, slavery, imperial war, revolution, and U.S. counterinsurgencies and military occupations.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confucius would give his seat to an old woman. Communist cadres, on the other hand, took the best seats and called it a cultural revolution.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020