Revolution Quotes
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This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealers art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution. (Quote by - Edvard Munch)
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. (Quote by - David Bohm)
The revolution... is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. (Quote by - Fidel Castro)
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. (Quote by - Jean Genet)
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution. (Quote by - Barbara Amiel)
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution, when the French were driven out, they stopped and sold this big chunk of North America to the Americans for very little money. (Quote by - Edwidge Danticat)
Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a revolutionarys life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it must be for a lifetime. (Quote by - Angela Davis)
I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution. (Quote by - Bianca Jagger)
Revolution is not a dinner party. (Quote by - Sun Yat-sen)
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. (Quote by - John Dickinson)
Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. (Quote by - Frank Herbert)
We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution. (Quote by - Harold Wilson)
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. (Quote by - Irving Babbitt)
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. (Quote by - Mao Tse-Tung)
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced. (Quote by - Barbara Deming)
I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards. (Quote by - William Henry Seward)
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people. (Quote by - Philip Zimbardo)
The Cuban revolution had just taken place, and there was a tremendous discussion going on about it. (Quote by - Henry Flynt)
There is no revolution that can change the nature of man (Quote by - Benito Mussolini)
Art is either plagiarism or revolution. (Quote by - Paul Gauguin)
Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution. (Quote by - Barbara Deming)
Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me. (Quote by - Scott Cook)
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. (Quote by - Vladimir Nabokov )
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. Its about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. Its about Washington and the army and the war. Its the nadir, the low point of the United States of America. (Quote by - David McCullough)
Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you cant jail the Revolution. (Quote by - Huey Newton)
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. (Quote by - Paul Gauguin)
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own. (Quote by - Abbie Hoffman)
One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution. (Quote by - Bob Schaffer)
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. (Quote by - Howard Nemerov)
I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Clemency is also a revolutionary measure. (Quote by - Camille Desmoulins)
We are creatures of the underworld. We cant afford to love! The Children of the revolution (Quote by - Moulin Rouge)
Since the Revolution, eight generations of Americas veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom. (Quote by - Steve Buyer)
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. (Quote by - Susan B. Anthony)
Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989. (Quote by - Nadia Comaneci)
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country. (Quote by - John Acton)
Revolutions are not made; they come. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real! (Quote by - Fidel Castro)
Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument. (Quote by - Ernest Mandel)
And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat. (Quote by - Ernst Toller)
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. (Quote by - Mao Zedong)
Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water? (Quote by - Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort)
History teaches us that the great revolutions arent started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when people begin to live a little better - and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved. (Quote by - Hubert H Humphrey)
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime. (Quote by - Jose Bergamin)
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. (Quote by - Paul Cezanne)
Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles. (Quote by - Aristotle)
For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights. (Quote by - B. R. Ambedkar)
The betting market is only going to get bigger and bigger and the internet revolution has brought a whole new set of people who would never go into the traditional bookies. (Quote by - William Hill)
There wont be any revolution in America, said Isadore. Nikitin agreed. The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing shirts and washing themselves. You cant feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom. (Quote by - Eric Linklater)
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense! (Quote by - Arthur Hertzberg)
Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind it only the slime of bureaucracy. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time. (Quote by - Ian Hamilton Finlay)
The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport. (Quote by - Laurent Fabius)
In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. (Quote by - John Boyd Orr)
Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary. (Quote by - Mikhail Bakunin)
I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets. (Quote by - Robert Bourassa)
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite! (Quote by - Karl Marx)
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible. (Quote by - Barbara Deming)
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology. (Quote by - Emily Greene Balch)
Every oppressed individual, class, race and group begins to form a mental picture of a revolution. (Quote by - Alexander Malina)
I have not yet begun to fight. (Quote by - John Paul Jones)
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism. (Quote by - Vladimir Lenin)
Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act. (Quote by - Christopher Dawson)
The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary. (Quote by - Karl Liebknecht)
A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution. (Quote by - Vladimir Lenin)
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. (Quote by - Dwight Eisenhower)
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. (Quote by - Aristotle)
All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution. (Quote by - Henry Ellis)
Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking. (Quote by - Scott Cook)
The problem... is emblematic of what hasnt changed during the equal opportunity revolution of the last 20 years. Doors opened; opportunities evolved. Law, institutions, corporations moved forward. But many minds did not. (Quote by - Anna Quindlen)
The only politics in this country thats relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other. (Quote by - H. Rap Brown)
I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. (Quote by - Fidel Castro)
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. (Quote by - Isaiah Berlin)
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here. (Quote by - Harold Brodkey)
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists. (Quote by - Tom Metzger)
Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you. (Quote by - Dr. Paul Williamson)
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. (Quote by - Anthony J. DAngelo)
The seed of revolution is repression. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country arent as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and dont resort to violent revolution. (Quote by - Harold H. Greene)
At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff. (Quote by - Steve Wozniak)
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. (Quote by - Francois la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt)
We talking about revolution because thats the era that youre caught in. (Quote by - H. Rap Brown)
There appears to be no limit as to how far the womens revolution will take us. (Quote by - Constance Baker Motley)
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change. (Quote by - Wynton Marsalis)
Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business. (Quote by - Ludwig von Mises)
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries. (Quote by - Norman Borlaug)
I perceive that, in revolutions, the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. (Quote by - Georges Jacques Danton)
We have a back four of players from Gillingham, Wrexham, New England Revolution and San Juan Jaboleth - heard of them? (Quote by - Leo Beenhakker)
For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak. (Quote by - Agnes Smedley)
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can. (Quote by - Robin Morgan)
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants. (Quote by - Herman Gorter)
We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN. (Quote by - Christiane Amanpour)
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. (Quote by - Daniel Berrigan)
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out mans duties in order to be equal in rights. (Quote by - Muammar al-Gaddafi)
I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the directors importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie. (Quote by - John Frankenheimer)
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not insurgents or terrorists or The Enemy. They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win. (Quote by - Michael Moore)
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. (Quote by - George Orwell)
I was born in revolution. (Quote by - Mary Harris Jones)
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. (Quote by - George Sand)
We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention. (Quote by - Lee Harvey Oswald)
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable (Quote by - John F Kennedy)
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end. (Quote by - Adlai E Stevenson)
As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment. (Quote by - Ralph Merkle)
I meet fathers who talk about the issues of child care, some of them are going to parenting classes. But I believe we need this fathers revolution (Quote by - Gordon Brown)
Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Revolution is the festival of the oppressed. (Quote by - Germaine Greer)
Were in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution. (Quote by - James Levine)
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes. (Quote by - John Boyd Orr)
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution. (Quote by - Randall Terry)
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
The most seditious is the most cowardly. (Quote by - Tacitus)
The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built. (Quote by - Rosa Luxemburg)
There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century. (Quote by - Arthur Erickson)
More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break Englands back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international. (Quote by - Agnes Smedley)
Revolutions go not backward. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall. (Quote by - Che Guevara)
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy. (Quote by - Henry Miller )
Every time theres a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing. (Quote by - Mike Tyson)
The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution. (Quote by - John T. Flynn)
A revolution is not a bed of roses. (Quote by - Fidel Castro)
Every revolution has its counter-revolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real. (Quote by - C Wright Mills)
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge. (Quote by - Francesco Guicciardini)
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. (Quote by - James MacGregor Burns)
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station. (Quote by - Abbie Hoffman)
Hitlers economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions. (Quote by - Carroll Quigley)
In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: thats the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people. (Quote by - H. Rap Brown)
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. (Quote by - Karl Marx)
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. (Quote by - Rosa Luxemburg)
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist. (Quote by - Juan Goytisolo)
Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution: In Britain our institutions evolve. (Quote by - William Hamilton)
It is not a revolt, it is a revolution. (Quote by - Francois la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt)
Make revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level. and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine )
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. (Quote by - Lenin, Vladimir)
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution. (Quote by - James Lovelock)
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. (Quote by - Abbie Hoffman)
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power. (Quote by - Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth. (Quote by - Raoul Vaneigem)
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. (Quote by - Huey Newton)
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. (Quote by - Eugene Ionesco)
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny. (Quote by - Hugo Black )
The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class. (Quote by - William Whyte Jr)
Many of the worlds troubles are not due just to Russia or communism. They would be with us in any event because we live in an era of revolution--the revolution of rising expectations. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection. (Quote by - Bianca Jagger)
But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically. (Quote by - Marvin Harris)
America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution. (Quote by - Francis Parkman)
You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, youd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices. (Quote by - Karel Capek)
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848. (Quote by - C. L. R. James)
The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated. (Quote by - Mercy Otis Warren)
You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying. (Quote by - Ernest Mandel)
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. (Quote by - Lawrence Lessig)
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes. (Quote by - Stephen Sondheim)
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind. (Quote by - Daisaku Ikeda)
Theres nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didnt abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. (Quote by - H. G. Wells)
Revolutions never go backward. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of variation much as if measure lengths were concrete musical material. (Quote by - Brian Ferneyhough)
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution. (Quote by - Steve Wozniak)
Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes. (Quote by - Romano Prodi)
Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. (Quote by - Wyndham Lewis)
While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world. (Quote by - Carol Bellamy)
There are not fifty ways of fighting, theres only one, and thats to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases. (Quote by - Andre Malraux)
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution. (Quote by - Simon Newcomb)
I suggested [in 1966] that we use the panther as our symbol and call our political vehicle the Black Panther Party. The panther is a fierce animal, but he will not attack until he is backed into a corner; then he will strike out. (Quote by - Huey Newton)
We forget how he revolutionised acting. (Quote by - Anthony Quinn)
The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and all the world over. But the workers in Western Europe stand alone: this should never be forgotten in Russia. (Quote by - Herman Gorter)
The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. (Quote by - Eugene V. Debs)
The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected. (Quote by - Herman Gorter)
Its time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. Weve reached a certain point, but were not moving any more. (Quote by - Ken Kesey)
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati. (Quote by - Carroll Quigley)
An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution. (Quote by - H. Rap Brown)
Its interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen. (Quote by - Randall Terry)
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world. (Quote by - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)
With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution. (Quote by - Kate Millett)
Taxation without representation is tyranny. (Quote by - James Otis)
First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle. (Quote by - C. L. R. James)
At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love. (Quote by - Che Guavara)
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. (Quote by - Johan Huizinga)
The revolution of rising expectations. (Quote by - Harlan Cleveland)
In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals. (Quote by - Nick Clooney)
And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders. (Quote by - Ernest Mandel)
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard)
The sadness of the womens movement is that they dont allow the necessity of love. See, I dont personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course. (Quote by - Jeremy Rifkin)
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world. (Quote by - Norman Borlaug)
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. (Quote by - John Dickinson)
Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous. (Quote by - Pierre Boulez)
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution. (Quote by - Samuel P. Huntington)
If we dont make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America. (Quote by - Louis Farrakhan )
Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas. (Quote by - Bill Hicks)
In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color. (Quote by - Emanuel Celler)
And I dont expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didnt - in the 1960s. (Quote by - Michael Stipe)
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life. (Quote by - Martha Beck)
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. (Quote by - John Quincy Adams)
The Revolution has not yet succeeded. Comrades, you must carry on! (Quote by - Sun Yat-sen)
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel has now been in power for 44 extremely long years. I started looking at the revolution as history, and not as part of the daily news. (Quote by - Alma Guillermoprieto)
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation. (Quote by - Jose Ortega y Gasset)
We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didnt have any problem with them. They started it. (Quote by - Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani)
Weve got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I cant say exactly where, but I think its back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart. (Quote by - David R. Brower)
The revolution is carried out by means of ones thought, not through ones family background. (Quote by - Kim Jong Il)
We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because theyve never had to present a working model. (Quote by - Charles F. Kettering)
There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way. (Quote by - Ernest Mandel)
Its not the work which kills people, its the worry. Its not the revolution that destroys machinery its the friction. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution. (Quote by - Lawrence Lessig)
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. (Quote by - George Orwell)
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution. (Quote by - Max Weber)
Revolution is not a goal in itself. (Quote by - Ernest Mandel)
If I cant dance, I dont want to be part of your revolution. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. (Quote by - Fidel Castro)
We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us. (Quote by - Georg Buchner )
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. (Quote by - Orison Swett Marden)
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. (Quote by - Irving Babbitt)
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children. (Quote by - Georg Buchner)
The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany. (Quote by - Klaus Fuchs)
Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization. (Quote by - Stephen Gardiner)
You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. (Quote by - Joseph Stalin)
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. (Quote by - John Mortimer)
There was reason to fear that the Revolution, like Saturn, might devour in turn each one of her children. (Quote by - Pierre Vergniaud)
If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)
To think that the new economy is over is like somebody in London in 1830 saying the entire industrial revolution is over because some textile manufacturers in Manchester went broke. (Quote by - Alvin Toffler)
Reform is Chinas second revolution. (Quote by - Deng Xiaoping)
I just think were living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid. (Quote by - Kelly Lynch)
Every generation needs a new revolution. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us? (Quote by - Dorothy Day)
Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one. (Quote by - Marianne Williamson)
No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. (Quote by - Barbara Tuchman)
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our countrys never been the same since. (Quote by - W. Averell Harriman)
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past. (Quote by - Fidel Castro)
Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives. (Quote by - Italo Calvino)
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. (Quote by - William Godwin)
