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Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or “loyal opposition” to the culture in which it is involved.

— Alan Watts Psychotherapy, East and West (1961)

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The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

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Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them.

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I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.

Huey P. Newton Revolutionary Suicide (1973)

Men do not lead the revolution; it is the Revolution that uses men.

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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

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