Quotes on Revolution

The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.

Author: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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

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

Author: Irving Babbitt

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

Author: Mikhail Bakunin

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Author: Toni Bambara

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Author: Toni Bambara

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

Author: Daniel Berrigan

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

Author: John Boehner

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

Author: Robert Bourassa

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

Author: H. Brown

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

Author: Georg Buchner

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

Author: Georg Buchner

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

Author: Edmund Burke

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

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

Author: John Corigliano

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

Author: Eugene Debs

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

Author: Norm Dicks

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

Author: Douglas Engelbart

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

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

Author: Jose Gasset

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

Author: Jean Genet

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

Author: William Godwin

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

Author: Herman Gorter

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Author: Germaine Greer

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

Author: Che Guevara

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

Author: Francois Guizot

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

Author: Fred Hampton

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

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

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

Author: Adolf Hitler

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

Author: Eric Hobsbawm

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

Author: Abbie Hoffman

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

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

The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.

Author: Bianca Jagger

I was born in revolution.

Author: Mary Jones

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

Author: Fanny Kaplan

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

Author: John Kennedy

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

Author: Vladimir Lenin

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

Author: Steven Levy

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

Author: Percy 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: Wyndham Lewis

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

Author: Wyndham Lewis

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

Author: Ernest Mandel

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

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

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

Author: Tom Metzger

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

Author: C. Mills

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Author: Vladimir Nabokov

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

Author: Huey Newton

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

Author: Huey Newton

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

Author: Romano Prodi

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Author: Jeff Rich

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

Author: Alfred Rosenberg

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

Author: Jerry Rubin

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 French revolution taught us the rights of man.

Author: Thomas Sankara

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Author: Joseph Stalin

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

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

Author: Peter Stone

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Author: Tom Stoppard

There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.

Author: Alfredo Stroessner

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

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

Author: Ernst Toller

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

Author: Mao Tung

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

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

Author: Harold Wilson

The seed of revolution is repression.

Author: Woodrow Wilson

Reform is China's second revolution.

Author: Deng Xiaoping

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

Author: Suzy Kassem

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

Author: Courtney Brown

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

Author: Sophia Robinson

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

Author: Luna Rodriguez

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

Author: Rihanna Fenty

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

Author: Maria Rodriguez

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

Author: Sophia Singh