Best 1601 quotes in «revolution quotes» category

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

The first revolution is when you change your mind

The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.

The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.

The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

The French Revolution printed money because they didn't have any, so they just printed it, and this was a revolutionary step which of course we are still reaping the huge consequences of today. It struck me that this was beginning to happen...there had been scandals where shares had been printed.

The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.

The French revolution taught us the rights of man.

The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.

The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man.

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.

The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD.

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but violent, a thing of dramatic, cumulative transformations: in the old formulation, more revolution than evolution.

The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

The idea of a rock band to me is the ultimate in subversion, in leading the charge to revolution. My fave part of music is that it cuts to the chase and goes right to the id.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on the contrary, to grow, to broaden, and disseminate itself in ever-wider circles. In other words, the State is institutional and static; revolution is fluent, dynamic.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure.

The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over before a lot of us even know it started.

The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience.

The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life

The main message of Climate Revolution is that climate change is caused by the rotten financial system we've got, designed to create poverty and rip off any profits for a small amount of rich people. Meanwhile, it destroys the earth.

The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.

The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute.

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those that occur quietly, unnoticed, uncommemorated. We don't celebrate the day the United States Constitution was destroyed; it didn't happen on a specific date, and most Americans still don't realize it happened at all. We don't say the Constitution has ceased to exist; we merely say that it's a 'living document.' But it amounts to the same thing.

The new course we're on at Interface ... is to pioneer the next Industrial Revolution: one that is kinder and gentler to the earth.

The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

The most powerful force changing our society is the information revolution.

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

The neurogenetic meaning of the cultural revolution is now clear. Neurochemicals are designed to be pursuitist, not escapist. They open the nervous system to the possibilities of future post-terrestrial evolution.

The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

The only possibility in the United States for a humane society would be a revolution with Elvis Presley as leader.