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Events and developments, such as ... the Copernican Revolution, ... occurred only because some thinkers either decided not to be bound by certain "obvious" methodological rules, or because they unwittingly broke them.

Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest

Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

...every successful quality revolution has included the participation of upper management. We know of no exceptions.

Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.

For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society

France is ready for a European revolution and it is Germany that is pulling the brakes. For a long time, it was the other way around. You don't have to agree with the details of every single one of Emmanuel Macron's suggestions, but he's right about the idea of a new foundation of Europe. Europe's Social Democrats have long demanded this. If we really want to, we can create a different, better Europe in the coming years.

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

For the United States, the ACA is a revolution, an enormous set of changes that many see as a huge step forward and many others see as a wrong turn.

France is revolutionary or she is nothing at all. The revolution of1789 is her political religion.

Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

Free markets are the real people's revolution.

From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of violence that had given them the power to challenge constituted authority. Bloodshed was not the unfortunate by product of revolution, it was the source of energy.

From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top.

Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

Geologists have usually had recourse for the explanation of these changes to the supposition of sundry violent and extraordinary catastrophes, cataclysms, or general revolutions having occurred in the physical state of the earth's surface.

He wasn't someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, Communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all of its grisly horror.

Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.

History is a relay of revolutions.

However much the various phases of the French Revolution may have modelled themselves on Roman history the early phase on Republican virtue, the later on Imperial grandeur the fact remains that classicism depended on a fixed and rational philosophy; whereas the spirit of the Revolution was one of change and of emotion.

How could liberty ever establish itself amongst us? Apart from a few tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes.

How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly.

I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.

I am always struck by the fact that human awareness of our place in nature, like so much of modern science, began with the Industrial Revolution.

I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.