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Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
William Godwin
Tyranny
Revolution
Indignation
Itself
Pregnant
As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.
Wyndham Lewis
Result
Revolution
Becomes
Feminine
Feminist
Homo sapiens, you and me, we are basically the same as people 10,000 years ago. The next revolution will change that.
Yuval Noah Harari
Me
You
Change
People
Will
Revolution
Years
Years Ago
Same
Next
Sapiens
Homo
Homo Sapiens
Basically
The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Grateful
Be Grateful
Revolution
Ungrateful
Must
Always
Children
Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Life
Yourself
Revolution
Live
Evolution
Promise
Just
Process
Your
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
Abbie Hoffman
Revolution
Own
Way
Only
Support
Make
Your
Of course there are many factors that led to the Iranian revolution, but back in 1951, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company - which would later become BP - and its principal owner, the British government, conspired to destroy democracy and install a western-controlled regime in Iran.
Adam Curtis
Government
Democracy
Become
Revolution
Back
Later
Destroy
Would
Factors
Install
Principal
Course
Iran
Iranian
Led
Owner
Oil
Oil Company
Which
Regime
Many
Company
British
British Government
Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.
Adam Michnik
Freedom
Struggle
Revenge
Power
First
Revolution
Every
Defined
First Phase
Bloody
Regime
Phase
Second
Phases
Two
The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about 'socialism with a human face.'
Adam Michnik
Work
Socialism
Face
Party
Spring
Revolution
Others
Members
About
Main
Between
Velvet
Mostly
Prague
Human
Difference
Wanted
Former
Human Face
Communist
Communist Party
Who
Bring
I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.
Adam Michnik
War
You
Justice
Pure
Revolution
Logic
Reconciliation
Civil
Civil War
Between
Leads
New
Know
Prefer
Choose
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai Stevenson I
Time
Beginning
Revolution
End
Stop
We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
Adlai Stevenson II
Revolution
Live
Rising
Era
Expectations
For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.
Agnes Smedley
Class
Strong
Revolution
Too
Months
Weak
Physical
Russia
Seemed
Seems
More
Instead
Longer
Likely
Certain
Working
Working-Class
Now
Resistance
Slavery
More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
Agnes Smedley
Free
National
Revolution
Back
India
See
Purely
More
Only
More And More
Longer
Concerning
Question
Itself
Forever
Any
Break
Successful
England
Europe
International
It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.
Ahmed Zewail
Democracy
Revolution
Attempt
True
Obstacles
Governance
Encountered
Egypt
After
Infrastructure
Many
Some consider the removal of Dr. Mohammed Morsi a coup by the army against an elected president. Others treat it as the second revolution, or the continuation of the January 25, 2011, revolution.
Ahmed Zewail
Army
Treat
Revolution
President
Others
Consider
Some
Removal
Coup
Continuation
Against
January
Elected
Mohammed
Dr
Second
We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
Problem
Treat
Revolution
Active
Relaxed
Mood
Embassy
Badly
Iran
Left
American
Did
Any
After
Them
Here
Started
The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.
Alain Aspect
First
Revolution
Society
Inventions
Main
Duality
Quantum
Led
Information
Ingredient
Root
Laser
While the revolution will be certainly televised, it strikes me that there is a strong possibility that the revolution will also be crowd-funded.
Alan Moore
Me
Strong
Will
Revolution
Strikes
Televised
Possibility
Also
While
Certainly
I'm hopeful that commercial space exploration will takeoff. To really fuel the spaceflight revolution will require an investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year, and I think that's only going to happen in the commercial sector - if there are large profits to be made.
Alan Stern
Space
Will
Made
Year
Revolution
Think
Hundreds
Sector
Hopeful
Only
Investment
Dollars
Commercial
Going
Space Exploration
Happen
Fuel
Really
Require
Exploration
Billions
Large
Billions Of Dollars
Profits
Sitting here at the beginning of the 21st century, we're only 200 years into the industrial revolution. We don't have an enormous dataset to draw on, so whatever shaped curve we're on, we're only at the beginning of it.
Alastair Reynolds
Beginning
Revolution
Whatever
Enormous
Draw
Only
Shaped
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Years
Sitting
Curve
Century
Here
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
Albert Camus
Reality
World
Rebellion
Thought
Become
Revolution
Our
Claim
Our World
Give
Lead
Name
Ideologies
Methods
Which
Consent
There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.
Alfredo Stroessner
Revolution
No Reason
Reason
For our part, Africa will make a significant contribution to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Ali Bongo Ondimba
Will
Revolution
Our
Significant
Part
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Make
Contribution
Africa
Fourth
Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.
Alison Gopnik
Me
History
Together
School
Revolution
Difficult
Philosophy
Would
Taking
Putting
Developmental
Most
Scientific
Real
Been
Very
Graduate
Graduate School
Children
Psychology
Place
Fortunately
Started
At school, up to the age of sixteen, I found history boring, for we were studying the Industrial Revolution, which was all about Acts, Trade Unions and the factory system, and I wanted to know about people, because it is people who make history.
Alison Weir
History
Age
People
School
Revolution
Unions
System
Boring
About
Factory
Studying
Know
Industrial
Industrial Revolution
Make
Because
Trade
Trade Unions
Were
Up
Sixteen
Wanted
Which
Who
Found
Acts
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