Best 1601 quotes in «revolution quotes» category

Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which these new industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you

Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?

During my performances, I don't like folks to take pictures because I feel that we live in a very photographic time. Photography was invented over 100 years ago, and now it's at its peak because everyone has a camera. The fact that they are taking experiences and filtering them through a mechanical lens I find amazing, but also disheartening. Amazing when you have photographs that start revolutions. Disheartening when you have people making photographs but not living.

Dwarfs can make revolutions easier than giants, because theirs will be unexpected!

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the industrial revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

Education is the motor-force of revolution.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

Enclosures have been appropriately called a revolution of the rich against the poor.

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them.

Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live.

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

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

Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

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

Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.

...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.

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

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

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

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

For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

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

For the United States, the ACA is a revolution, an enormous set of changes that many see as a huge step forward and many others see as a wrong turn.

France is ready for a European revolution and it is Germany that is pulling the brakes. For a long time, it was the other way around. You don't have to agree with the details of every single one of Emmanuel Macron's suggestions, but he's right about the idea of a new foundation of Europe. Europe's Social Democrats have long demanded this. If we really want to, we can create a different, better Europe in the coming years.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered.

From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constituted authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by product of revolution, it was the source of energy.

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having occurred in the physical state of the earth's surface.

Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.