“I detested revolutions; I believed, instead, in reconciliation and reform.” — Maziar Bahari Copy Share Image
“The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows.” — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power rests with the most abandoned. — Anonymous 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
The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are done, we recognize one thing: that the human race has been… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put… — Terence McKenna 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
“In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough,… — Jean Jaures Copy Share Image
All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“People must hope so much when they tear streets up and fight at barricades. But, whoever wins, the streets are laid again… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions,… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true.… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
“The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature… — William James Copy Share Image
Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“There are major revolutions every few hundred years--humanity seems to depend on things being shaken up from time to time, to remind… — K.J. Wetherholt Copy Share Image
The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Just as the world cannot live on wars, so people cannot on revolutions — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation. — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
