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

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

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

A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.

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

A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

A revolution that does not produce a new space has not realized its full potential

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

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

As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.

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

As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.

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.

A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.

As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept.This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history.

A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to shatter the community that was, without an adequate substitute.

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

A Tory..., since the revolution, may be defined in a few words, to be a lover of monarchy, though without abandoning liberty; anda partizan of the family of Stuart. As a Whig may be defined to be a lover of liberty though without renouncing monarchy; and a friend to the settlement in the protestant line.

A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income

At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.

Attempts at reform, when they fail, strengthen despotism, as he that struggles tightens those cords he does not succeed in breaking.

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

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

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.

Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really. Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.

But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat... Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier... Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.

By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life

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

Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best mode of preventing the necessity of either.

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.

But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

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.

By definition, revolutions are not linear, one step at a time, event A leading to event B, and so on. Many causes operate on each other at once. Revolutions shift into place suddenly, like the pattern in a kaleidoscope. They do not so much proceed as crystallize.

Certainly a big challenge for me with evening-wear is to make it look modern and artistic and avant-garde. The very concept of a ball gown is not in itself a modern concept, and women need to wear that for a certain presence in Hollywood. I'm also aware that a starlet might go to more than one place that night so the piece could also offer, maybe not a revolution, but an evolution.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918.