Best 1601 quotes in «revolution quotes» category

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.

If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

If you end internet neutrality and permit mergers of the big information technology corporations, that's a form of rent seeking. It's part of today's political revolution.

If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?

If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.

If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.

I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.

I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And I think there is a shift in consciousness among our human species. I think the human species is evolving, spiritually.

I have been interested in global web-based communities and emerging technologies since the mid 80's. There is a revolution occurring in global culture at the moment, that will change everything. And it's only just beginning.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.

I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.

I like intersections. They're the nature of New York, and there's always the possibility that when you're at one you can meet someone new. Have I ever met anyone new at an intersection? No, but I like the idea of it. I like cities because if you're stopping on the corner to wait for a light to change, there's the possibility that you and somebody else can talk. And if you and that somebody else start to talk, then you can start to argue, and if you start to argue, you might start a revolution.

I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much of what our culture is comes from not just the United States in general, but New York in particular. In my case, I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.

In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one

I'm going to stop a revolution,'' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.

India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution

In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

Inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service of socialism.

In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.

In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead us back tomorrow to the situation of yesterday, the conquest of today must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must not be poor tomorrow.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be allowed to dig without consent into our genetic codes, then market them?

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.