In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire. — Francois Duvalier Copy Share Image
A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible,will make violent revolutions inevitable. — John F Kennedy Copy Share Image
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea. — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
Charles Fox said that restorations were the most bloody of all revolutions; and he might have added that reformations are the best… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now I’ve learned the beauty and profound significance… — Jim Palmer Copy Share Image
I've always said - I've always said I'm not, by temperament, a romantic about revolutions or given to revolutions. I've always thought… — Hisham Matar 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
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
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
It's not uncommon for revolutions to stem from a radicalized group just outside the circle of power. That's what the French Revolution… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“We have just said that the scaffold is the only edifice which revolutions do not demolish. It is rare indeed that revolutions… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The heirs of the French, English, and American revolutions had partly believed in their own phrases about the rights of man, freedom… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If I were a member of the class that rules, I would post men in all the neighborhoods of the nation, not… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“Imagine a world where people were 10% happier and less reactive. Marriage, parenting, road rage, politics - all would be improved upon.… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“We seek to uncover behind the events changes in the collective consciousness. We reject wholesale references to the “spontaneity” of the movement,… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
“as the mass of mankind remains always at about the same pitch of misery, it never assents long to any one remedy,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“In order to mount a revolution, numbers are never enough. Revolutions are usually made by small networks of agitators rather than by… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
