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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 on the human mind.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Victor Hugo

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Karl Marx

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Albert Camus

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

John Boyd Orr

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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 on the human mind.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Victor Hugo

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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Karl Marx

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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Albert Camus

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When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

John Boyd Orr

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We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.

Ernest Mandel

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Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

Gloria Steinem

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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Edmund Burke

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Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

Lajos Kossuth

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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.

John Stuart Mill

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