Best 1601 quotes in «revolution quotes» category

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me.

I would start a revolution, but I just bought a hammock.

I was a radical, a revolutionist. I am still a revolutionist…I am glad I was in the Stonewall riot. I remember when someone threw a Molotov cocktail, I thought, “My god, the revolution is here. The revolution is finally here!

James Delaney as an individual is sort of like a grain of sand in an oyster who is irritating all of them. But for me he's a creature of the time, like the industrialists who started the Industrial Revolution who extricated themselves from their class and their background

Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.

Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining prison of faith (all three were believing Christians, of one sort or another) but from the enormous burden of the millennial authority of Aristotelian science. The scientific revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was not a revival of Hellenistic science but its final defeat.

Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.

Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.

Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.

Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.

Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and once more confronted the Patriot party with the whole problem of the revolution's future.

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All you can ever change is yourself.

Mercy, it's the revolution and I'm in my bathrobe!

Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive.

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.

Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

Most of the experts agree that strategy will have to become more "adaptive", meaning that strategies will change faster based on information from people on the corporation's front lines - dealing with customers, fending off competitors. This won't represent a new revolution, but rather the continued speeding up of the one that's been going on. Everything will move faster, and competitive advantage disappear more quickly than ever.

Most young people are or will soon enough be workers. They can help to energize and radicalize the workers' movement. And what revolution has ever succeeded without youth?

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

My call is the call of battle- I nourish active rebellion;/ He going with me must go well armed.

My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

My friend Michael Reagan has given us the blueprint for a new Reagan revolution- and he has given Ronald Reagan back to us again. Read it, learn it, live it, love it!

My principles are only those that, before the French Revolution, every well-born person considered sane and normal.

National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution.

Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

Nobody would say the cowshed was heaven and nobody would say the inhuman torture of so many victims be called a revolution of the proletariat. ... A museum should be established to remind China of the follies and disasters that had fallen from 1966 to 1976. We cannot forget what had happened and history should not repeat itself.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

National Socialism will use its own revolution for establishing of a new world order.

No evolution is accomplished in nature without revolution. Periods of very slow changes are succeeded by periods of violent changes. Revolutions are as necessary for evolution as the slow changes which prepare them and succeed them.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.

...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out

None but tyrants have any business to be afraid.

No revolution can be made with silk gloves.

No parts of his Majesty's dominions can be taxed without their consent.

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

No revolution without sexual revolution. No sexual revolution without homosexual revolution.