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“There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.”

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Author:Abbie Hoffman

“Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.”

Men May Political Passion Politics Taught Revolution Lessons Sincerity Dogma Political Systems French Revolution

Book:Abraham Lincoln

Source: Abraham Lincoln

“The great lesson of the Internet revolution is not that people never want personal service, just that they won't pay for personal service that does not add real value to the transaction.”

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Author:David F. D'Alessandro

“In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.”

Should Firsts Reality Humanity Asks Liberty Path Failing Revolution Lessons Draws Tyranny

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“It is Chairman Mao who should be held primarily responsible for the Great Leap Forward. But it didn't take him long - just a few months - to recognize his mistake, and he did so before the rest of us and proposed corrections. And in 1962, when because of some other factors those corrections had not been fully carried out, he made a self-criticism. But the lessons were not fully drawn, and as a result the "Cultural Revolution" erupted.”

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Author:Deng Xiaoping

“The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.”

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Book:Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to forget it”

Source: Writings