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“Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.”

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Author:George Bernard Shaw

“But the people did get it. They had lost something -- not exactly their fear, but their patience. Suddenly it seemed unbearable to go on accepting these systems, these portly little idiots in their blue suits, for another year, and then for another day, another hour. That special sort of impatience is the power-surge of revolution.”

People Years Littles Lost Hours Accepting Special Revolution Goes On Blue Suits Idiot Unbearable Impatience Another Day Another Year

Author:Neal Ascherson

“Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.”

Changed Revolution Goes On Beggar Lashes Cannons Horseback

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.”

Should Trying War Communication Revolution Goes On Civil War Sooner Or Later Emphasis Uptight

Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“As the world transforms, moves closer together, jobs are displaced, and the world of work completely changes the way we live, the way we think. As that revolution goes on around us, it is going to pose political challenges of which immigration is one very obvious one, which are going to be extremely difficult to deal with. But it's like free trade. You know, in the end, if we go protectionist, we'll make a mistake.”

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Author:Tony Blair

“With this show [Stand-Up Revolution ], I loved the idea that I would be picking the talent that goes on, not the network. It was me handpicking people who might not have gotten the chance to be on TV. So, I thought it was real cool that I was putting people up there.”

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Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.”

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Author:Lawrence Durrell

“The laws of economics tell us that the expansion of the central state can't go on forever. Its limit is reached when the looted turn on the looters. And that's beginning to happen. More than six decades of hard work for American liberty beginning with the Old Right opposition to the Roosevelt Revolution and continuing with the Mises Institute, is beginning to bear fruit.”