Best 1601 quotes in «revolution quotes» category

A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.

A government creates its own revolution. There can be no revolt without it.

Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Allow me to say how manly and humanly great of you I think this is. Your courageous and firm intervention have met with nothing but recognition throughout the entire world. I congratulate you for all you have given anew to the German nation by crushing the intended second revolution.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning

All revolutions devour their own children.

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

All the many brands of suppression - racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, classism - are historical; they have not been always with us. It was not ever thus. And it's not going to be this way, come the revolution!

All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only party that will survive is the party of the world socialist revolution.

All we ask is to be let alone.

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

And as for the Jews, who since the emancipation of their sect have everywhere put themselves, at least in the person of their eminent representatives, at the head of the counter-revolution -- what awaits them?

America is ripe for a service revolution.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in getting Elvis Presley to become Che Guevara.

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most effectiveform of resistance: contemptuous compliance.

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

A revolution that does not produce a new space has not realized its full potential

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.