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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 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.

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

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Why can I not fight for my country too?

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

You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.

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

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

You and I love understanding American Revolution, but let's also understand the digital revolution, because that makes us more comfortable with our technology.

You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.

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

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.

Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

You cannot make a revolution in white gloves.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.

You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears.

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

You know how I always believe in the future. Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.

You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.

You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems.

You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.