Best 1601 quotes in «revolution quotes» category

One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

One of the main reasons I wrote The Sleep Revolution was to examine this ancient, essential, and mysterious phenomenon from all angles and to explore the ways we can use sleep to help regain control over our out-of-kilter lives.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution against revolutions, the uprising of all peaceable individuals, who will become soldiers for once so that neither they nor anyone else will ever have to be a soldier again.

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

One wonders why there are so many women who follow Robespierre to his home, to the Jacobins, to the Cordeliers and to the Convention. It is because the French Revolution is a religion and Robespierre is one of its sects. He is a priest with his flock... Robespierre preaches, Robespierre censures, he is furious, serious, melancholic and exalted with passion. He thunders against the rich and the great. He lives on little and has no physical needs. He has only one mission: to talk. And he talks all the time.

Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.

On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal, When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal.

Only the strong and the hopeful are able to revolt.

Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

Others loved themselves, money, theories, power: Lenin loved his fellow men.... Lenin was God, as Christ was God, because God is Love and Christ and Lenin were all Love!

Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!

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

Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.

Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.

[O]ur War of the Revolution was, in good measure, fought as a protest against standing armies.

Our Revolution was born and raised in taverns.

Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi.

Over the last few decades, I've grown more skeptical about a few things in which I used to have more faith. I believe as much in the necessity of, and the possibility of, revolution as I ever did. At the same time, I've grown more skeptical about poetry's role in it or art's contribution to it, and I've grown more skeptical about the university. Universities are big companies, and they're disciplinary in the way that any big institution is. I've found that the political militancy that the professoriate has mostly been fairly repressive of what I take to be necessary politics.

Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality. Because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted kinds, and the kinds that destroy lives.

People often say, "Riots aren't revolutions." That's true. The vast majority of riots never become revolutionary. On the other hand, show me the revolution that started without a riot.

People say that ideas aren't important in business. Okay, people say, maybe an idea for a new product, but the rest is all execution, making it happen. Not so. As the strategy revolution demonstrated, ideas can be the key tools for making your business competitive.

People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830

People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.

Real Revolution Starts At Learning, If You're Not Angry, Then You Are Not Paying Attention.

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good... the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution.

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.

Presumably a movement is more polite than a revolution, and a lot slower.

Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.

Rebels seldom make good revolutionaries, because organized action, even union with other people, is not possible for them.

Reform is Chinas second revolution.

Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!

Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

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

Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality.

Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Revolution, total revolution, implies experimenting with the impossible. And when an individual takes a step in the direction of the new, the impossible, the whole human race travels through that individual.

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.