Edward Abbey Quotes About Revolution
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The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
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The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.
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There never was a good war or a bad revolution.
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
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