Best 1601 quotes in «revolution quotes» category

If you compromise in any kind of movement or any kind of wave of revolution, if you sort of play the game, things are gonna change far more slowly than you need them to.

If you do not condemn colonialism, if you do not side with the colonial people, what kind of revolution are you waging?

If you end internet neutrality and permit mergers of the big information technology corporations, that's a form of rent seeking. It's part of today's political revolution.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.

If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.

If you were lost for America, there is nobody who could keep the army and the revolution [going] for six months.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.

I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

I have left my balls to Robespierre and my legs to Couthon. That should help the Committee of Public Safety for a while.

I have been interested in global web-based communities and emerging technologies since the mid 80's. There is a revolution occurring in global culture at the moment, that will change everything. And it's only just beginning.

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.

I hope we have learned throughout centuries of revolution and reaction that it's really a shift in consciousness that we need. And I think there is a shift in consciousness among our human species. I think the human species is evolving, spiritually.

I'm a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.

I just saw a recent television program about art, and it was saying how from the end of the Second World War, so much of what our culture is comes from not just the United States in general, but New York in particular. In my case, I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

I like intersections. They're the nature of New York, and there's always the possibility that when you're at one you can meet someone new. Have I ever met anyone new at an intersection? No, but I like the idea of it. I like cities because if you're stopping on the corner to wait for a light to change, there's the possibility that you and somebody else can talk. And if you and that somebody else start to talk, then you can start to argue, and if you start to argue, you might start a revolution.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

I'm going to stop a revolution,'' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.

I'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.

In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.

In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

In a revolution one wins or dies, if it is a real one

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Inflation has always been an important resource of policies of war and revolution and why we also find it in the service of socialism.

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.

In For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).

In imperialism nothing fails like success. If the conqueror oppresses his subjects, they will become fanatical patriots, and sooner or later have their revenge; if he treats them well, and governs them for their good, they will multiply faster than their rulers, till they claim their independence.

In order that the revolution should be something more than a word, in order that the reaction should not lead us back tomorrow to the situation of yesterday, the conquest of today must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must be worth the trouble of defending; the poor of yesterday must not be poor tomorrow.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French Revolution better than another? What makes one interpretation of "Waiting for Godot" better than another? These questions led me to philosophy and then to philosophy of science.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest course.

In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists going to be allowed to dig without consent into our genetic codes, then market them?

In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

In the course of history periods of capitalism and socialism alternate with one another; capitalism is the unnatural, socialism the natural economic system... The National Socialists and the Red Front have the same aspirations. The Jews falsified the Revolution in the form of Marxism and that failed to bring fulfilment.

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I’ve learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor.

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

I pursue through my research on speed and on my study of the organisation of the revolution of the means of transportation.