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"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois." »Gustave Flaubert
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"By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary." »Jerry Rubin
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"There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war." »Albert Einstein
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"Beaurocracy destroys initiative." »Frank Herbert, Dune
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"Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment." »Louis D. Brandeis
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"You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference." »Chris Marie Evert
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"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." »Abbie Hoffman
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"Where self-interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity." »Pope John Paul II
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"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." »Hannah Arendt
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"Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic." »Albert Camus
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"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal." »Erich Fromm
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"It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man." »David Harris
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"To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power." »Jane Fonda
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"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary and it is they alone who are masters." »Paul Gauguin
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"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." »George Orwell
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"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." »George Orwell
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"If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known." »George C. Marshall
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"At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love." »Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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"Why cross an ocean when you can cross a river Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here (On Middle East peace initiative)" »Shimon Peres
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"I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team. (On first friendly overture by People's Republic of China)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"If you cry 'Forward' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite" »Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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"I am personally convinced that one person can be a change catalyst, a 'transformer' in any situation, any organization. Such an individual is yeast that can leaven an entire loaf. It requires vision, initiative, patience, respect, persistence, courage, and faith to be a transforming leader." »Stephen Covey
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"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Their element is to attack, to track, to hunt, and to destroy the enemy. Only in this way can the eager and skillful fighter pilot display his ability. Tie him to a narrow and confined task, rob him of his initiative, and you take away from him the best and most valuable qualities he posses: aggressive spirit, joy of action, and the passion of the hunter." »LtGen Adolf Galland, Luftwaffe
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative." »Karl Popper
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"Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man." »Bertrand Russell
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