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Alexis de Tocqueville1 quote
It is not always by going from bad to worse that a society falls into revolution... The social order destroyed by a revolution is almost always better than that which immediately preceded it, and experience shows that the most dangerous moment for a bad government is generally that in which it sets about reform. — Alexis de Tocqueville · 1856Che Guevara1 quote
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. — Che Guevara · 1967Mahatma Gandhi1 quote
We are engaged in a spiritual war. We are not living in normal times. — Mahatma Gandhi · 1921