Best 1601 quotes in «revolution quotes» category

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".

According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the Russian Revolution had been financed by the Rothschilds and Warburgs, with a member of the Warburg family carrying the actual funds used by Lenin and Trotsky in Stockholm in 1918.

Adam Johnson was a revolution when he came on

A curious mind armed with skill, experience, knowledge, and patterns can give birth to big brand revolution.

A disunited people till the end of time, suspicious and distrustful of each other, [the Americans] will be divided and subdivided into little commonwealths... with no center of union and no common interest.

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.

A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.

All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all you have given anew to the German nation by crushing the intended second revolution.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning

All revolutions devour their own children.

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us. It was not ever thus. And it's not going to be this way, come the revolution!

All we ask is to be let alone.

All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.

America is ripe for a service revolution.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

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 in itself is not a blessing.

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.