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“There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself.”

Thinking Knows Men World Feels Humanity Moral Know How Revolution Every Man Permanent Our World Nobody Knows Regeneration

Book:Pamphlets. Translated from the Russian

Source: Pamphlets. Translated from the Russian

“We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out We invented the Revolution but we don't know how to run it Look everyone wants to keep something from the past a souvenir of the old regime This man decides to keep a painting This one keeps his mistress He [ pointing ] keeps his garden He [ pointing ] keeps his estate He keeps his country house He keeps his factories This man couldn't part with his shipyards This one kept his army and that one keeps his king”

Knows Men Way Want Looks Ideas Country Running Past House Know How Generations Painting Revolution Kings Garden Army Factories Regimes Estates Pointing Mistress Souvenirs Country Houses

Author:Peter Weiss

“Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.”

Knows Know How Revolution Musical

Author:Robbie Robertson

“People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830”

People Knows Made Dies Know How Revolution Curiosity

Author:Graham Swift

“Capitalism has been fully restored in Yugoslavia, as is well-known, but this capitalism knows how to disguise. Yugoslavia portrays itself as a socialist state, but of a special kind, as the world has never seen it before! The Titoites even boast that their state has nothing in common with the first socialist state which emerged from the socialist October Revolution and which was founded by Lenin and Stalin on the basis of the scientific theory of Marx and Engels.”

“Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.”

Knows Done Jobs Leader Know How Effects Revolution Mass Improvement Radical Latter Chuck

Book:George Orwell: A Life in Letters

Source: George Orwell: A Life in Letters

“Snowpiercer has both [optimistic and pessimistic]. It was essentially optimistic. The most pessimistic was my part, because of his knowledge. He knows how it started. The status quo, he knows, has to be maintained, otherwise there is no chance. He knows that this revolution is completely understandable and is also commendable. He also knows the negatives. In the end, that's not a very positive position to be in.”

Knows Ends Chance Know How Position Revolution Optimistic Status Quo Pessimistic Very Positive Commendable

Author:John Hurt