“It ain’t about what you like. You down for the cause or not?”— Sam Bromell, Jacqui Rivera, Sinead Daly, Shaolin Fantastic, Shameik Moore, imdb.com
“How are you gonna be a revolutionary if you're such a traditionalist? You hold onto the past, but jazz is about the future.”— Damien Chazelle, Keith, John Legend, imdb.com
“You see, we Marxists believe that a revolution will also take place in other countries. But it will take place only when the revolutionaries in those countries think it possible, or necessary. The export of revolution is nonsense. Every country will make its own revolution if it wants to, and if it…”— Joseph Stalin, marxists.org
“There is a pattern to American life that what is avant-garde becomes commonplace. The mass market eventually assimilates that which is innovative or revolutionary.”— Al Goldstein, spectator.org
“In art, there are only two types of people: revolutionaries and plagiarists. And in the end, doesn't the revolutionary's work become official, once the State takes it over?”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.”— Che Guevara, amazon.com
“Marx grasped this essence of capitalist democracy splendidly when, in analyzing the experience of the Commune, he said that the oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!”— Vladimir Lenin, marxists.org
“Once we have overthrown the capitalists, crushed the resistance of these exploiters with the iron hand of the armed workers, and smashed the bureaucratic machinery of the modern state, we shall have a splendidly-equipped mechanism, freed from the ‘parasite’, a mechanism which can very well be set go…”— Vladimir Lenin, marxists.org
“The petty-bourgeois democrats, such as our Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks, and also their twin brothers, all the social-chauvinists and opportunists of Western Europe, expect just this ‘more’ from universal suffrage. They themselves share, and instil into the minds of the people, the false…”— Vladimir Lenin, marxists.org
“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com