Best 1601 quotes in «revolution quotes» category

I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

If Abu Nidal is a terrorist, then so is George Washington.

If all properly economic problems were solved once for all . . . the social struggle and strife would . . . [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity . . . in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

If Donald Trump wins, it represents a rightist revolution in America.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.

If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs.

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.

If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

If the sexual revolution has been a medical disaster, socially it has been a catastrophe. Why do the media not report and explore the tragic results of the sexual revolution? Because many are collaborators.

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

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

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

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

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

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

I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every 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 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 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'm convinced that democracy cannot be exported from one country to another, like you cannot expert revolutions, ideology.

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

In America the word revolutionary is used to sell pantyhose.

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

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

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

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.

Independence must be accompanied by a social revolution

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

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

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.

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.

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.