Revolution Quotes
A far more sensible policy in this country, in my view, this wouldn't require a political revolution. It should be simply one station per owner.- Robert McChesney
A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.- Jose Ortega y Gasset
A revolution is a struggle between the past and the future.- Fidel Castro
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But the Industrial Revolution moved at least as fast in the same time span, and had probably an equal impact if not a greater one.- Peter Drucker
Every generation needs a new revolution.- Thomas Jefferson
For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak.- Agnes Smedley
Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.- Florence Kelley
I can't take it anymore!- Alex Jones
I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.- John Frankenheimer
I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.- Andre Norton
If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.- Louis Farrakhan
It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.- Judah Philip Benjamin
It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.- Randall Terry
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.- Eugene Ionesco
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.- Wynton Marsalis
More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.- Agnes Smedley
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.- Randall Terry
Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.- Aristotle
Reform is China's second revolution.- Deng Xiaoping
Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.- Susan B. Anthony
Revolution begins with the self, in the self.- Toni Cade Bambara
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.- Tom Stoppard
Revolution is not a onetime event.- Audre Lorde
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.- Charles Caleb Colton
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.- Harold Rosenberg
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.- Abbie Hoffman
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.- John Quincy Adams
The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.- Stephen Gardiner
The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.- Toni Cade Bambara
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.- Kim Jong Il
The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.- Ernst Toller
The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.- Che Guevara
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.- Constance Baker Motley
To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.- Carlos Castaneda
We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention.- Lee Harvey Oswald
We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.- Frederica Montseny
We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.- Ernst Toller
We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.- Frederica Montseny
We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.- Christiane Amanpour
You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.- Fred Hampton
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
To love without role, without power plays, is revolution. - Rita Mae Brown
You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-other-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution. Revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. - Malcolm X
The revolution, is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. - Fidel Castro
And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description. - Lord Byron
Every generation needs a new revolution. - Thomas Jefferson
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution, revolution is but thought carried into action. - Emma Goldman
To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that. - Carlos Castenada
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.-Archie Shepp
Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.-Bob Schaffer
You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.-Fred Hampton
We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.-Frederica Montseny
I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.-Harry Shearer
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.-Frederick Pollock
Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, that's what we're needing! We've needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine o'clock.-Kurt Tucholsky
No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld.-Rod Parsley
I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.-Norm Dicks
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.-Abbie Hoffman
We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.-Scott Cook
After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.-Gunther Schuller
The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.-Robert Trout
The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.-Scott Cook
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.-Emma Goldman
In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.-Lin Biao
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.-John Corigliano
Restoring the Welsh language in Wales is nothing less than a revolution. It is only through revolutionary means that we can succeed.-Saunders Lewis
The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.-Ernst Toller
The Almighty has fixed the distinction of the races; the Almighty has made the black man inferior, and sir, by no legislation, by no partisan success, by no revolution, by no military power, can you wipe out this distinction.-Fernando Wood
To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.-Alfred Rosenberg
But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.-Avi Arad
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.-Johan Huizinga
Every generation needs a new revolution.-Jeff Rich
I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.-Robert Bourassa
Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes.-Romano Prodi
The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.-Abbie Hoffman
Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.-Ernest Mandel
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.-Barbara Deming
America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.-Francis Parkman
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.-Barbara Deming
The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.-Herman Gorter
It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.-Randall Terry
I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie.-John Frankenheimer
And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat.-Ernst Toller
I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.-Harold H. Greene
In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in Venezuela rebelled - worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S. government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country. And we've had complaints about this ever since.-Mark Lloyd
I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'-Brian Ferneyhough
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.-John Boyd Orr
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.-Randall Terry
