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“[T]he people seem to have deposited the monarchical and taken up the republican government with as much ease as would have attended their throwing off an old and putting on a new suit of clothes.”

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Book:1777-18 June, 1779, including the Revisal of the laws, 1776-1786

Source: 1777-18 June, 1779, including the Revisal of the laws, 1776-1786

“Revolution? Unscrew the flag-staff, wrap the bunting in the oil covers, and put the thing in the clothes-chest. Let the old lady bring you your house-slippers and untie your fiery red necktie. You always make revolutions with your mugs, your republic--nothing but an industrial accident.”

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Author:Alfred Doblin

“There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.”

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Book:No Cure for Cancer

Source: No Cure for Cancer

“You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.”

Source: Fight Club: A Novel

“Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.”

“Now, we're just imitating and imitating and imitating what we've done before. The real revolution on how we make clothes and how we wear clothes is about to come. I don't know if we should be afraid or not. That's when we're going to see a Steve Jobs in the industry.”

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Author:Norma Kamali

“I don't believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological or political climate.”

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Author:Tom Ford