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I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want.

I think revolution happens when you distrust anything in its current state, including yourself.

I think that revolution means change. And if somebody feels like there's nothing wrong, everything's great even when it ain't, why would they ask for a revolution? Just stick the tubes into me and just pump away.

I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

I think when you look back at the different eras in jazz, what leads from one to another is never a melodic revolution, but a rhythmic revolution.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil.

It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other countries.

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

It is not just a simple game, it is a weapon of the revolution.

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.

I titled my book "Revolution." And that is exactly what it is. France is experiencing a time of transformation - in education, on the labor market and in the pensions system. We're talking about a cultural revolution.

It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.

It's always a revolution, you know, when things occur of which you have never happened to hear!

It's no secret that in Venezuela there is no division of powers and that many functionaries have put on blinders when looking at irregularities because they benefit from the revolution and its corruption.

It takes a revolution, to create a solution

It's the occasion that makes the revolution.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

It would be a foetus of monarchy!

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.

It was such a bigger picture [ Westworld] than what I thought it was. It's more of a revolution than a TV show.

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these things can be found in rock 'n' roll. But I am also engaged in all of these things separately.

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

I've got a lot of shows under my belt that are ancient history solely because they were on the air before this video revolution came along and ensured that canceled shows could continue to have a bit of a presence.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.