“The resistance is always in proportion to the achievement. The greater the impediment, the greater the result.” — Chris Erzfeld Copy Share Image
“For virtually all the socialist revolutions of the twentieth century, it was not a crisis of the capitalist system, but imperialist war… — S.A. Smith Copy Share Image
It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians... who live… — George III Copy Share Image
Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery. — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
In America, the economy is simply nowhere near bad enough to serve as the base of any kind of serious political revolution. — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no… — Charles A. Reich Copy Share Image
Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There was not a single Islamic slogan [in Egypt]. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
That was what they did with themselves, those two Gracelings, along with a small band of friends: They stirred up trouble on… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist...the entirety… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
There are cases - for example, the American Revolution. George Washington's army lost just about every battle with the British, who had… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From Caesar's legions to the Napoleonic wars. From the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the industrial revolution to the defeat of nazism. We… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
“A creative America has walls for structure but no ceilings at all. The doors and windows always stay open. No member who… — Ashfaq Ishaq Copy Share Image
By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
During the twentieth century, men fought on behalf of nationalism. Yet the wars they fought were also engendered by dislocations in world… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“The world is in rebellion against that government. From these rebels and revolutionists, we hear much talk about “peace,” and a great… — Rousas John Rushdoony Copy Share Image
Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
What I’m talking about is more than recompense for past injustices—more than a handout, a payoff, hush money, or a reluctant bribe.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
"Black culture" is ready for whatever. I sense some momentum and excitement around black artists (especially in comedy, which is where most… — Baratunde Thurston Copy Share Image
The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
Government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community... when any… — George Mason Copy Share Image
It is not to save capitalism that we fight in Russia … It is for a revolution of our own. … If… — Leon Degrelle Copy Share Image
Most Iranians are sick and tired of revolutions. They've had one for the last 25 years, and they don't want another one.… — Kenneth M. Pollack Copy Share Image
“Revolutions are rarely if ever majoritarian but instead are usually propelled by a small group that is disciplined and fanatical to which… — Frederic C. Rich Copy Share Image
Freedom is entirely different from revolt. There is no such thing as doing right or wrong when there is freedom. You are… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone… — Vashti Bunyan Copy Share Image
“Dump all autocratic nonsense of law-abidance, Tell the right from wrong by conscience rule. If you want human rights to reign supreme,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Democracy is a system were ignorants choose a government, comunism is a system where ignorants govern themselves.” — Daniel Delgado F Copy Share Image
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
For the United States, the ACA is a revolution, an enormous set of changes that many see as a huge step forward… — John E. McDonough Copy Share Image
“Ladies, get confident bout yourselves, build up your self-worth and esteem, love yourself and be proud of your achievements and your man… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
It is not a crime to build revolutionary resistance against the single greatest enemy of the people of the world: U.S. imperialism. — Susan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If we want a solution then we need a revolution. Want a solution man we need a revolution. A revolution of the… — Big Youth Copy Share Image
I shall die in the belief that to make France free, republican and prosperous, a little ink would have sufficed - and… — Camille Desmoulins Copy Share Image
“Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
We need a revolution in consciousness to overturn the system we live in, to strengthen our democracy, to find courage and give… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image