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How to use the word revolutions in a Sentence?

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The vast majority of people are not rising up trying to overthrow the country. It’s not the proletariat, rising up, overthrowing the Bourgeoisie. And it never is, whether it's Cuba or North Korea or China or Russia or any of those so-called revolutions, these are Marxist efforts by a smaller percentage of society to control a larger percentage of society, these are not peasant revolutions.

Mark Levin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's been really fun to be a part of two major revolutions or movements, i guess we sort of have a thing for networks : Facebook( FB) being a social network and then money or crypto being the ultimate social network.

Tyler Winklevoss

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Belarusian authorities are not so primitive. They are not Internet-phobic. Lukashenko is a rational person, revolutions do not occur due to the fact that someone writes something on the Internet.

Aleksander Klaskovskii

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Tomorrow when the regime changes you will have to build a relationship and you will have very little time, i know what I'm saying as I witnessed two revolutions in Russia.

Former Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Tomorrow when the regime changes you will have to build relationship and you will have very little time, i know what I'm saying as I witnessed two revolutions in Russia.

Former Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

In the modern world extremism is being used as a geopolitical instrument and for remaking spheres of influence. We see what tragic consequences the wave of so-called color revolutions led to, For us this is a lesson and a warning. We should do everything necessary so that nothing similar ever happens in Russia.

Vladimir Putin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

George Farquhar

added by anonymous
9 years ago

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

George Sand

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

Henry Miller

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Revolutions are not made, they come.

Wendell Phillips

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.

Heinrich Heine

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one pedestal after another of our previous conviction about our own self-importance.

Stephen Jay Gould

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

Victor Hugo

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

added by anonymous
10 years ago

All revolutions lead only to another form of slavery.

Lakshmi Narasimman

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

Bishop Vincent

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.

H. L. Mencken

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

Aristotle

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Nikita Khrushchev

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Stephen Jay Gould

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

George Farquhar

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.

Rob Brown

added by anonymous
14 years ago

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.

Hannah Arendt

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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