Best 1601 quotes in «revolution quotes» category

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

Colonial atrocities have prepared the soil; it is for socialists to sow the seeds of revolution.

Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women

Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action.

Cooking is revolution and creation.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.

During my performances, I don't like folks to take pictures because I feel that we live in a very photographic time. Photography was invented over 100 years ago, and now it's at its peak because everyone has a camera. The fact that they are taking experiences and filtering them through a mechanical lens I find amazing, but also disheartening. Amazing when you have photographs that start revolutions. Disheartening when you have people making photographs but not living.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means.

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

Don't be deceived when our Revolution has been finally stamped out and they tell you things are better now Even if there's no poverty to be seen because the poverty's been hidden even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which these new industries foist on you and even if it seems to you that you never had so much that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you

Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?

Dwarfs can make revolutions easier than giants, because theirs will be unexpected!

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the industrial revolution. We can achieve so much more, at unmatched scale with software and interactive learning.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

Enclosures have been appropriately called a revolution of the rich against the poor.

Education is the motor-force of revolution.

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.

Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly or indirectly participate in revolution intend - conditioned by the myths of the old order - to make it their private revolution. The shadow of their former oppressor is still cast over them.

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

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest

Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution

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

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

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.

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.

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

Feminism isn't called the longest revolution for nothing.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.