Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas. — Manuel Gonzalez Flores Copy Share Image
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past.… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
'Revolutions' was beyond my wildest dreams. I just really enjoyed it so much visually, the action and then the story and the… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
“I meant the moral to be that revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
“With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.” — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
“In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Since we're each unique, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The working of revolutions misleads me no more; it is as necessary to our race as its waves to the stream, that… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
“Our ancestors had fought and murdered one another, married and forged alliances, founded countries. At their best - but only for selfish… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I feel I understand now why, whenever there are revolutions, Shakespeare is what people turn to. Because whenever a society is on… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Why are revolutions so rare? Why do the masses sometimes clap and cheer for centuries on end, doing everything the man on… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation. — Benjamin Disraeli 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 must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred… — Lydia M. Child 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
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
“Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as a credible… — Gyan Nagpal Copy Share Image
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
“By now there were whole new Industrial Revolutions going on in the Low Earths; the British seemed to have the building of… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Arab world had a big problem of frankly venal elites. That is why these revolutions happen, because people didn't think the… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The big honour of the big revolutions belongs to the high intelligence who design the revolution, not to the masses who support… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I realized we were going through one of the greatest revolutions that ever hit the history of the world - the information… — David Steward Copy Share Image
There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Thanks to Twitter, I learn about the revolutions in the Middle East via Arab activists and writers, not just from American foreign… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“And Leites and Wolf were wrong. “It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
War means an ugly mob-madness, crucifying the truth tellers, choking the artists, sidetracking reforms, revolutions, and the working of social forces — John Reed Copy Share Image
“They became actual revolutions instead of mere discussions, complaints and rioting, only after revolutionists had beaten, or won over, the armed forces… — Crane Brinton Copy Share Image
From Gandhi to Mandela, from the American patriot to the Polish shipbuilders, the makers of revolutions have not come from the top. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
