“History is a raw onion sandwich, it just repeats, it burps. We've seen it again and again this year. Same old story,… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The revolutionary is a dedicated man. He has no personal interests, no private affairs, no emotions, no attachments, no property and no… — Victor Sebestyen Copy Share Image
There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn't really have a plan on how to deal with it,… — Andy Stern Copy Share Image
“A man who is fearless, who is really in revolt, struggling to find out what it means to learn, to love—such a… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
“Now in history there is no Revolution that is not a Restoration. Among the many things that leave me doubtful about the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's high time that Christians made up their minds to do something . . . What are we going to show in… — Hans Scholl Copy Share Image
If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you're at least minimally moral, it's because… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even the best parents have to spend so much time making ends meet that they cannot help their kids with homework or… — Sal Albanese Copy Share Image
In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“The old disease, thought Rubashov. Revolutionaries should not think through other people's minds. Or, perhaps they should? Or even ought to? How… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
One of the things about George III is that he was aware that the monarchy was slipping away. There was revolution in… — Nigel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“I have always thought that in revolutions, especially democratic revolutions, madmen, not those so called by courtesy, but genuine madmen, have played… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
What we can say with confidence is that the technological revolution is worsening inequality, due mostly to mechanisms that limit free markets.… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
That's part of the problem with these conflicts. We're not close enough to it. If we don't try to get really close… — James Foley Copy Share Image
“Successful revolutionaries do occasionally end up in positions of power, but they seem more likely, on the historical record, to end up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
Here they are, all in one place. Circle back to them when you need some poetic shine. It is not revolutions and… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
When the Khmer Rouge reached Phnom Penh, the first thing they did was to evacuate the population. Then they took over. The… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
“The transition from the good man to the saint is a sort of revolution; by which one for whom all things illustrate… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The Syrians lost out because they happened to have their revolution during an election cycle in America, France, and bizarrely, some kind… — Paul Conroy Copy Share Image
It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake… — Karl Liebknecht Copy Share Image
The French Revolution printed money because they didn't have any, so they just printed it, and this was a revolutionary step which… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“[T]he radical geographer Iain Boal had prophesied, "The longing for a better world will need to arise at the imagined meeting place… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Revolution: Political movement which gets many people´s hopes up, let´s even more people down, makes almost everybody uncomfortable, and a few, extraordinarily… — Adolfo Bioy Casares Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
There are very interesting books about these events, for instance one by a very well-known American historian named William R. Polk called… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Our food chain is in crisis. Big agribusiness has made profits more important than your health—more important than the environment—more important than… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Warfare is a means and not an end. Warfare is a tool of revolutionaries. The important thing is the revolution. The important… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
Permanent mass unemployment destroys the moral foundations of the social order. The young people, who, having finished their training for work, are… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of mans experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image