Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
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Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: It's painful, and it's the last resort for nations.
Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revolution has its ebullience, its bravery, its hope, and its solidarity. Some of these things pass.
No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.