300 Quotes on Revolution

• Pastel sunsets are whispers from the sky, airy pieces of day's aloof embrace dissolving into night, reminding us that beauty is transient yet always worthy of our gaze.

  Author: Elara Accessible

• When quietly emboldened hearts murmur their truths, they orchestrate revolutions invisible to the deafening crowd.

  Author: Elara Whitmore

• In every hush powerful enough to move souls, whispered courage becomes the spark fueling the bravest revolutions.

  Author: Oriana Gates

• Within the stillness, whispers of insight become roars of clarity; it is there, nestled in quiet, where the most profound truths bloom unnoticed, occasionally stunning the eye that pauses to see.

  Author: Evelyn Chow

• When whispers paint history in unnoticed strokes, each hushed revolt complicates belief while sculpting change in shadows.

  Author: Mira Nyre

• In silence bred by repercussions, discreet revolutions align to redefine presence--every absence has artistry.

  Author: Iris Pavilion

• Even the subtlest movements of silence can upend expectations, sculpting a beautiful confusion where worlds beautifully collide.

  Author: AriaElement Dariovitch

• In the symphony of life, quiet disruptions can pivot the routine like understated dancers, revealing unseen possibilities in commonly tread footsteps.

  Author: Elise Marbres

• In stillness lies the power to reshape our understanding, and within hushed moments, we often inspire the loudest revolutions.

  Author: Elena Snow

• I'm just a musical revolutionary explaining myself better through song.

  Author: Mr. Fahrenheit - Freddie Mercury

• In a world eager for boisterous actors on the stage of life, it is often the soft footsteps in shadowed halls that spark revolutionary thinking; introverts wield observation over bravado.

  Author: Emily Tory

• In the stillness of their minds, introverts kindle fires of thought that illuminate paths unexplored; their renegade whispers initiate change well before a thunderousaanng och disrupts.

  Author: Clara Jensen

• In the sanctuary of silence, introverts craft whispers that shape worlds unseen, flourishing in thought while the tides of orthodoxy roar around them.

  Author: Isla Fenner

• The paths we inherit can feel like charts we're obliged to follow, yet the most revolutionary journeys often begin when we redefine the maps in our minds.

  Author: Clarissa Song

• In the symphony of existence, digital minimalism is our stark melody,teaching us opulence lies not in content density, but in tranquil silences within screens.

  Author: Lila Weston

• Our sanity thrives when we've borrowed boundaries from the analog world--digital choices that amplify life, rather than overwhelm it, become our recurring revolution.

  Author: Clara Nolan

• Mindful tech usage isn't about setting screens aside, but redefining their purpose in the whispers of our true intentions.

  Author: Alex Greenwood

• In reclaiming concrete barriers with vibrant foliage, we reset the skyline -- where nature marries urban hunger for soil and dusk dances on sprouting promise.

  Author: Lila Hart

• Amidst towering slabs and concrete sighs, the heartbeat of greenery whispers the city's pulse into existence--it's our choice to let nature paint the skyline.

  Author: Adrian Hale

• Art is the whispered stories of the soul turned vivid; it remaps our imagination and shines unapologetically in needful shadows.

  Author: Elara Stockton

• Creativity is the spark that ignites innovation and revolutionizes the norm.

  Author: Sophia Singh

• Never underestimate the power of a single spark to ignite a revolution.

  Author: Maria Rodriguez

• Change the world by being yourself; it's the most revolutionary act.

  Author: Rihanna Fenty

• The most magnificent revolution begins with a single spark of inspiration.

  Author: Luna Rodriguez

• Love is the greatest form of rebellion against hate, a silent revolution ignited by the heart.

  Author: Sophia Robinson

• Embrace your uniqueness, for in a world of conformity, authenticity is a revolutionary act.

  Author: Courtney Brown

• Embrace the beauty of your authenticity, for in a world of copycats, being original is a revolutionary act.

  Author: Suzy Kassem

• 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.

  Author: Philip Zimbardo

• 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.

  Author: Mao Zedong

• Reform is China's second revolution.

  Author: Deng Xiaoping

• 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.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and sir, by no legislation, by no partisan success, by no revolution, by no military power, can you wipe out this distinction.

  Author: Fernando Wood

• It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• The seed of revolution is repression.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

  Author: Harold Wilson

• 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.

  Author: Marianne Williamson

• There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

  Author: H. Wells

• 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.

  Author: Mercy Warren

• Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

  Author: Mike Tyson

• A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

  Author: Mao Tung

• Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

  Author: Barbara Tuchman

• The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

  Author: Robert Trout

• And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.

  Author: Ernst Toller

• The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

  Author: Ernst Toller

• We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.

  Author: Ernst Toller

• 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.

  Author: Alvin Toffler

• In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• 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.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• The crisis triggered a fertile period of scientific ferment and revolution in economic theory.

  Author: James Tobin

• Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

  Author: Randall Terry

• It's 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.

  Author: Randall Terry

• It is wrong to try to avoid the struggle against imperialism under the pretext that independence and revolution are important, but that peace is still more precious.

  Author: Kim Sung

• The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

  Author: Larry Summers

• There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.

  Author: Alfredo Stroessner

• Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

  Author: Tom Stoppard

• This is a revolution, damnit! We're going to have to offend somebody!

  Author: Peter Stone

• And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.

  Author: Michael Stipe

• We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

  Author: Joseph Stalin

• After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• 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.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

  Author: Agnes Smedley

• Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

  Author: Ignazio Silone

• It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.

  Author: Archie Shepp

• I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

  Author: Harry Shearer

• They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, where we crossed racial lines.

  Author: Bobby Seale

• After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.

  Author: Gunther Schuller

• The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.

  Author: Bob Schaffer

• 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.

  Author: Bob Schaffer

• Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

  Author: Bob Schaffer

• The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974.

  Author: Jose Saramago

• The French revolution taught us the rights of man.

  Author: Thomas Sankara

• We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.

  Author: Bernie Sanders

• 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.

  Author: George Sand

• The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

  Author: Jerry Rubin

• The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

  Author: Harold Rosenberg

• To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.

  Author: Alfred Rosenberg

• 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.

  Author: Jeremy Rifkin

• Every generation needs a new revolution.

  Author: Jeff Rich

• We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

  Author: Akbar Rafsanjani

• The problem... is emblematic of what hasn't 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.

  Author: Anna Quindlen

• 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.

  Author: Carroll Quigley

• Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.

  Author: Carroll Quigley

• Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.

  Author: Romano Prodi

• Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

  Author: Mark Poster

• Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.

  Author: Frederick Pollock

• At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia.

  Author: Andrei Platonov

• No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld.

  Author: Rod Parsley

• America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

  Author: Francis Parkman

• 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.

  Author: Lee Oswald

• 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.

  Author: George Orwell

• No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

  Author: George Orwell

• One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

  Author: George Orwell

• 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.

  Author: John Orr

• 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.

  Author: John Orr

• And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

  Author: Phil Ochs

• I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

  Author: Andre Norton

• You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution.

  Author: Huey Newton

• The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

  Author: Huey Newton

• 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.

  Author: Simon Newcomb

• 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.

  Author: Howard Nemerov

• Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

  Author: Vladimir Nabokov

• This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

  Author: Edvard Munch

• There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

  Author: Constance Motley

• Anarchists prepare for social revolution and use every means- speech, writing, or deed, whichever is more to the point - to accelerate revolutionary development.

  Author: Johann Most

• 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.

  Author: Robin Morgan

• 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.

  Author: Michael Moore

• We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

  Author: Frederica Montseny

• We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

  Author: Frederica Montseny

• Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

  Author: Ludwig Mises

• Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

  Author: C. Mills

• A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

  Author: Kate Millett

• 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.

  Author: Kate Millett

• 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.

  Author: Henry Miller

• I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

  Author: Tom Metzger

• 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.

  Author: Ralph Merkle

• My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

  Author: David McCullough

• By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.

  Author: Mitch McConnell

• The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.

  Author: Karl Marx

• 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!

  Author: Karl Marx

• 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.

  Author: Wynton Marsalis

• And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders.

  Author: Ernest Mandel

• Revolution is not a goal in itself.

  Author: Ernest Mandel

• 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.

  Author: Ernest Mandel

• You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

  Author: Ernest Mandel

• Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

  Author: Ernest Mandel

• There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.

  Author: Andre Malraux

• The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

  Author: Malcolm Malcolm X

• The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

  Author: Bryan Magee

• I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

  Author: Kelly Lynch

• The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

  Author: Rosa Luxemburg

• History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

  Author: Rosa Luxemburg

• China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.

  Author: James Lovelock

• In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in Venezuela rebelled - worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S. government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country. And we've had complaints about this ever since.

  Author: Mark Lloyd

• The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.

  Author: Karl Liebknecht

• Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

  Author: Wyndham Lewis

• As a result of the feminist revolution, "feminine" becomes an abusive epithet.

  Author: Wyndham Lewis

• Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed.

  Author: Saunders Lewis

• As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.

  Author: Percy Lewis

• The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

  Author: Steven Levy

• We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

  Author: James Levine

• 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.

  Author: Lawrence Lessig

• All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

  Author: Lawrence Lessig

• A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

  Author: Vladimir Lenin

• 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.

  Author: Vladimir Lenin

• It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

  Author: Vladimir Lenin

• The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

  Author: Ursula LeGuin

• There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

  Author: Denis Leary

• It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.

  Author: Henry Lawson

• The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

  Author: Thomas Kuhn

• My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

  Author: Sally Kirkland

• It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

  Author: Ken Kesey

• The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.

  Author: Alexander Kerensky

• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  Author: John Kennedy

• Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.

  Author: Florence Kelley

• After the Revolution I was freed. I favoured the Constituent Assembly and am still for it.

  Author: Fanny Kaplan

• Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

  Author: Franz Kafka

• I was born in revolution.

  Author: Mary Jones

• We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.

  Author: Roy Jenkins

• First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

  Author: C. James

• 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.

  Author: C. James

• The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.

  Author: Bianca Jagger

• 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.

  Author: Bianca Jagger

• Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

  Author: Eugene Ionesco

• The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

  Author: Kim Il

• 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.

  Author: Daisaku Ikeda

• My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.

  Author: Jon Huntsman, Jr.

• 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.

  Author: Samuel Huntington

• Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

  Author: Johan Huizinga

• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

  Author: Mark Hopkins

• I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years.

  Author: William Hooper

• 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.

  Author: Abbie Hoffman

• The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

  Author: Abbie Hoffman

• We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

  Author: Eric Hoffer

• Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

  Author: Eric Hobsbawm

• If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

  Author: Adolf Hitler

• Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

  Author: Bill Hicks

• 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!

  Author: Arthur Hertzberg

• 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.

  Author: Frank Herbert

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

  Author: Heinrich Heine

• 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.

  Author: Marvin Harris

• Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

  Author: W. Harriman

• America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

  Author: Warren Harding

• You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.

  Author: Fred Hampton

• Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.

  Author: William Hamilton

• The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

  Author: Francois Guizot

• 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.

  Author: Alma Guillermoprieto

• The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

  Author: Che Guevara

• Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

  Author: Germaine Greer

• 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 aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.

  Author: Harold Greene

• 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.

  Author: Juan Goytisolo

• The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

  Author: Herman Gorter

• 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.

  Author: Herman Gorter

• 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.

  Author: Herman Gorter

• If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

  Author: Emma Goldman

• No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

  Author: Emma Goldman

• Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

  Author: William Godwin

• The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

  Author: Jean Genet

• Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

  Author: Paul Gauguin

• A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

  Author: Jose Gasset

• Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

  Author: Garet Garrett

• The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

  Author: Stephen Gardiner

• The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

  Author: Maggie Gallagher

• 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.

  Author: Klaus Fuchs

• I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's 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.

  Author: John Frankenheimer

• 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.

  Author: Henry Ford

• Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

  Author: Dario Fo

• But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.

  Author: John Flynn

• 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.

  Author: John Flynn

• 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.

  Author: Ian Finlay

• 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.'

  Author: Brian Ferneyhough

• The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

  Author: Marilyn Ferguson

• Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.

  Author: Diane Feinstein

• If we don't 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.

  Author: Louis Farrakhan

• 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.

  Author: Laurent Fabius

• Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?

  Author: Sam Ervin

• 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.

  Author: Arthur Erickson

• The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

  Author: Douglas Engelbart

• All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

  Author: Henry Ellis

• In the vibrant quilt of chaotic learning, each stitch of disruption offers a chance to reshape understanding, crafting wisdom in places where order dares not tread.

  Author: Jayetta Ndame

• In the cacophony of the city, urban silence becomes alchemical; crystallizing pockets of serenity birthed from the collision of dreams and despartion.

  Author: Harper Quinn

• I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.

  Author: Norm Dicks

• 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.

  Author: Barbara Deming

• 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.

  Author: Barbara Deming

• 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.

  Author: Barbara Deming

• The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

  Author: Eugene Debs

• 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?

  Author: Dorothy Day

• 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.

  Author: Christopher Dawson

• 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.

  Author: Edwidge Danticat

• Before Vatican II, in theology, as in other areas, the discipline was fixed. After the council there has been a revolution - a chaotic revolution - with free discussion on everything. There is now no common theology or philosophy as there was before.

  Author: Godfried Danneels

• Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

  Author: Mary Daly

• Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

  Author: Ralph Cram

• The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

  Author: John Corigliano

• 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.

  Author: Scott Cook

• The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.

  Author: Scott Cook

• We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

  Author: Scott Cook

• 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.

  Author: Scott Cook

• 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.

  Author: Joseph Conrad

• 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.

  Author: Nadia Comaneci

• 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.

  Author: Charles Colton

• 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.

  Author: Nick Clooney

• You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

  Author: Gilbert Chesterton

• The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.

  Author: Whittaker Chambers

• The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.

  Author: Paul Cezanne

• 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.

  Author: Emanuel Celler

• The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

  Author: Fidel Castro

• No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

  Author: Fidel Castro

• 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.

  Author: Fidel Castro

• A revolution is not a bed of roses.

  Author: Fidel Castro

• A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

  Author: Fidel Castro

• To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

  Author: Carlos Castaneda

• You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

  Author: Karel Capek

• 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.

  Author: Albert Camus

• Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

  Author: Steve Buyer

• A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

  Author: James Burns

• We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

  Author: James Burke

• The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

  Author: Edmund Burke

• A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

  Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

  Author: Georg Buchner

• We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

  Author: Georg Buchner

• Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

  Author: Georg Buchner

• To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

  Author: Rita Brown

• 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.

  Author: H. Brown

• The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

  Author: H. Brown

• In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.

  Author: H. Brown

• We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

  Author: H. Brown

• We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's 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.

  Author: David Brower

• 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.

  Author: Harold Brodkey

• I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

  Author: Robert Bourassa

• 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.

  Author: Norman Borlaug

• 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.

  Author: Norman Borlaug

• 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.

  Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

• A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

  Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

• 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.

  Author: David Bohm

• Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

  Author: John Boehner

• 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.

  Author: Hugo Black

• Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

  Author: Ambrose Bierce

• A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

  Author: Daniel Berrigan

• 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.

  Author: Isaiah Berlin

• It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

  Author: Jose Bergamin

• It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

  Author: Judah Benjamin

• 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.

  Author: Carol Bellamy

• It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

  Author: Henry Beecher

• In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

  Author: Bela Bartok

• Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

  Author: Toni Bambara

• 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.

  Author: Emily Balch

• Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

  Author: Mikhail Bakunin

• The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

  Author: Irving Babbitt

• Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

  Author: Irving Babbitt

• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

  Author: Hannah Arendt

• 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.

  Author: Hannah Arendt

• But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.

  Author: Avi Arad

• Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

  Author: Susan Anthony

• The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

  Author: Maya Angelou

• 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.

  Author: Barbara Amiel

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