Best 1601 quotes in «revolution quotes» category

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of economy.

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

Is it the duty of every good revolutionary to kill every newborn White baby?

I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon.

Issue the orders, sir, and I will storm hell!

It always feels great to be at the start of something new. It's almost like a revolution, in a way.

It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.

It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united.

I think revolution happens when you distrust anything in its current state, including yourself.

I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want.

I think that revolution means change. And if somebody feels like there's nothing wrong, everything's great even when it ain't, why would they ask for a revolution? Just stick the tubes into me and just pump away.

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

I think when you look back at the different eras in jazz, what leads from one to another is never a melodic revolution, but a rhythmic revolution.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

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

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution.

It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.

It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other countries.

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

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.

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.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

I titled my book "Revolution." And that is exactly what it is. France is experiencing a time of transformation - in education, on the labor market and in the pensions system. We're talking about a cultural revolution.

It's no secret that in Venezuela there is no division of powers and that many functionaries have put on blinders when looking at irregularities because they benefit from the revolution and its corruption.

It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.

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

It's the occasion that makes the revolution.

It takes a revolution, to create a solution

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

It was such a bigger picture [ Westworld] than what I thought it was. It's more of a revolution than a TV show.

It would be a foetus of monarchy!

I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me.

I've got a lot of shows under my belt that are ancient history solely because they were on the air before this video revolution came along and ensured that canceled shows could continue to have a bit of a presence.

I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock 'n' roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist…I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, “My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!

Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison of faith (all three were believing Christians, of one sort or another) but from the enormous burden of the millennial authority of Aristotelian science. The scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was not a revival of Hellenistic science but its final defeat.

I would start a revolution, but I just bought a hammock.

James Delaney as an individual is sort of like a grain of sand in an oyster who is irritating all of them. But for me he's a creature of the time, like the industrialists who started the Industrial Revolution who extricated themselves from their class and their background

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.