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“First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without taking careful consideration [of] what this word actually means, and what its historic characteristics are. When you study the historic nature of revolutions, the motive of a revolution, the objective of a revolution, and the result of a revolution, and the methods used in a revolution, you may change words. You may devise another program. You may change your goal and you may change your mind.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“... However, there is another method, other than revolution, which is that of natural evolution, or rather the intellectual method with all its modes of education and up-bringing.”

Natural Revolution Evolution Intellectual Method

Author:Ameen Rihani

“It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.”

Revolution Ideals Ultimate Aim Method Inspired Vain Revolutionary Tunes

Book:My Disillusionment in Russia

Source: My Disillusionment in Russia

“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”

Ifs Knows Want Change Knowledge Learning Military Theory Revolution Taste Eating Direct Method Genuine Pears Knowledge And Experience Knowledge Experience Chinese Revolution

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality.”

“Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.”

World Giving Reality Names Revolution Claims Method Ideology Rebellion Our World Consent Uprising

Book:The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

Source: The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

“If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.”

Ifs Knows Want Theory Revolution Method Pears Chinese Revolution

Author:Mao Zedong