“The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.” RevolutionOppositesExtremesOppressionRevolt Author:Tennessee Celeste Claflin
“People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place. It was the people taking power into their own hands. Now that is what you mean by democracy if you take it to the full swing.” PeopleIfsMeanHandsDemocracySawsRevolutionChinaExtremesInstanceSwings Author:Donald Tsang
“We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.” RememberRevolutionExtremesChinesePeasantsChinese Revolution Author:Salvador Dali
“I think it's just been a core part of the Cuban revolution to have a very high level of internationalism. I mean, these cases you've mentioned are cases in point, but the most extreme case was the liberation of Africa. Take the case of Angola for example, and there are real connections between Cuba and Angola-much of the Cuban population comes from Angola.” ThinkingMeanRealLevelsCasesExampleRevolutionConnectionsPopulationExtremesCoreLiberationCubaCubanHigh LevelInternationalismCuban RevolutionReal ConnectionAngola Author:Noam Chomsky
“The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMeanSpiritSocialPovertyCreativityMillionsEconomicIgnoranceRevolutionDiseaseIndiaLifetimeEdgesExtremesHarshEntrepreneurialLatentSocial RevolutionExtreme PovertyEntrepreneurial Spirit Author:Manmohan Singh
“Because the left, George Bush won two elections, 2000 and 2004. So 2008, we didn't see. It was obviously there. We saw effervescence and this bubbling up of this extreme left-wing cultural revolution, so to speak, but it seems like with the inauguration of [Barack] Obama, outward appearances, it seemed like the country flipped and did a 180 overnight.” TwoCountrySeemsLeftSpeakSawsRevolutionElectionWingsAppearanceExtremesBarackLeft WingInaugurationFlippedOutward Appearance Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy . . . great improvement . . . were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.” StatesFeelingsEducationKnownImpossibleRevolutionHorrorExtremesImprovementTyrannySensationsRepublicAnarchyDistractionPerpetualDisgustingPettyRapidsGreeceVibrationsSuccession Author:Alexander Hamilton