Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Right. I’m sure that poor etiquette is the number one reason for most failed revolutions.” — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
“These revolutions are born of hope, and their philosophies are formally optimistic.” — Brinton Crane Copy Share Image
“Parties do not lead revolutions. They follow them. And then only when forced to.” — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Subsequent revolutions have in like manner regarded the Church as Public Enemy number 1, precisely because it creates a realm of value… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is… — George Sand Copy Share Image
When a society doesn't know what to do with its young, it's in real trouble. When the young don't know what to… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
“Before I only wanted to change the world. I still want that, but it was ironic how I never wanted to change… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“But all these revolutions resulted in good to the people. Education, public spirit, enterprise, labor, all the arts of civilization, and even… — E. E. (Ezra Eastman) Adams Copy Share Image
The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution,… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“What doesn’t go back in the jar or the box are ideas. And revolutions are, most of all, made up of ideas.… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Some socialist movements in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain, for instance, were genuine. I was making films about the so-called Arab Spring, and… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I recognized it in "Revolution,"… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
“The crisis of history in France, is a crisis of social bond, a crisis of citizenship. A citizen is the heir of… — Jean Sevillia Copy Share Image
She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Don't be afraid to go left when the world is going right. The French learned that the people have power to make… — Martin R. Lemieux Copy Share Image
The revolution of ideas that will save us is a revolution of goodwill, of compassion, and of higher thinking. I believe that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Revolutions can even be faux revolutions when, through the careful manipulation of counterrevolutionary forces, they demand not reform but the restoration of… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image