Best 1601 quotes in «revolution quotes» category

We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

We will never have Fascism in England; no Englishman will dress up, not even for a revolution.

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

What a glorious morning this is!

What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy

Whatever deficiencies the leaders of the American Revolution may have had, reticence, fortunately, was not one of them.

Whatever else it is, the kingdom of God is decidedly not a call to violent revolution.

Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.

What happened in Russia in 1917 wasn't a revolution - it was a coup d'etat.

What if hamsters fought in the American Revolution?

What I like to do when I go out is enjoy my friends and the food around it. If we have to stop and give five minutes to the chef, then I'm down with that. But if the chef has to interrupt every course to tell us how important this new revolution that's happening is, then I'm not so much interested in that.

What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive?

What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.

What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution.

What produces the general good is always terrible or seems bizarre when begun too soon. The Revolution must stop when it has perfected public happiness and liberty through the laws.

What shall we call an "immediate possibility"? In 1923 the situation in Germany was profoundly revolutionary, but what was lacking for a victorious revolution was a correct strategy.

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly.

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

When hopes of reform are dashed, people will rise up and seek revolution.

When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

When it's time for the revolution, I'm a click, click, click.

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward--or go back

When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly forsee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history.

When you brought the Industrial Revolution in, all of a sudden India and China went from being the dominant global powers to being powers dominated by those who understood how to apply this new technology.

When we live the love of the Gospel out loud, a revolution will occur.

When you think of power, you think the state has power. When you look at it in terms of revolution, in terms of the state, you think of it in terms of Russia, the Soviet Union, and how those who struggled for power actually became victims of the state, prisoners of the state, and how that led to the dissolution of the Soviet Union. We have to think of revolution much more in terms of transitions from one epoch to another.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

Where did you find that one?" "I have no idea. I'm a magnet for crazies, I guess." "They must be able to sense a kindred spirit." "Your one to talk. Don't you have more hordes of the undead to lead in a glorious revolution?" "Zombies not undead. There's a fine distinction. And no. Right now I'm scouting new talent. The glorious revolution comes tomorrow.

Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment.

Where I come from revolution is the only creation, and the revolutionary the only artist.

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

While I had done the movies through Revolution Studios, we own the sitcom. It was a situation where, once the team was assembled, I knew we could create something really, really good.

Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution.

With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.

Why can I not fight for my country too?

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates.