Revolution Quotes · Page 119

I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing…

— Vivienne Westwood

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

— H. L. Mencken

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier…

— Ba Jin

About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of…

— Herbert Butterfield

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

— John Corigliano

“Unlike the rationalism of the French Revolution, true liberalism has no quarrel with religion.”

— Friedrich A. Hayek

Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are…

— Romeo Dallaire

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

— Hannah Arendt

“They said it was to be a revolutionary house, free of class struggle, no servants’ rooms because they didn’t believe in laundry…

— Barbara Kingsolver

With so much at risk, you might expect Australia to be at the forefront of the clean-energy revolution and the international effort…

— Jeff Goodell

We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's…

— Ted Turner

“Order prevails in Berlin!” You foolish lackeys! Your “order” is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will “rise up again, clashing its…

— Rosa Luxemburg

“Probably no country has ever had as large a shift in the distribution of wealth [as what we've seen in the U.S.…

— Lester Thurow

“The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time where industrial stock markets…

— Steven Magee

We are bound first to imform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

Revolutionaries who come to power by force of arms usually have great crimes in their background. Leaders who survive campaigns by great…

— Stephen Kinzer

If I could take all my parts with me when I go somewhere / and not have to say to one of…

— Pat Parker

I believe nothing happens by accident. My fame has happened for a reason. My fans are my kindred spirits in revolution. If…

— Marilyn Manson

I don't want to be hubristic about art's possibilities. I don't think that art has a causal relationship to revolution. I do…

— Joshua Clover

“By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When a legislator succeeds, after persevering efforts, in exercising an indirect influence upon the destiny of nations, his genius is lauded by…

— Anonymous

“You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly. 'I'd like a hard-boiled egg,' said Vimes, shaking the…

— Terry Pratchett

To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The…

— Theodore Kaczynski

“When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You have to stop this. I don't want to lose you too. If you have to make a revolution, Make a small…

— Judy Budnitz

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Anyaele Sam Chiyson Leadership Law of Advancement: Notable leaders chart the course of action that causes other leaders to progress toward reaching…

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves…

— Charles Alexandre de Calonne

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic…

— George Bernard Shaw

“The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.

— Lily Tomlin

The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically…

— H. Richard Niebuhr

The purpose of every industrial revolution is to make craft and skills obsolete, and thereby make people interchangeable and cheap.

— Greg Palast

The revolution of blockchain is not going to happen from outside the system; it's going to happen from within the system.

— Brad Garlinghouse

You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.

— Fred Hampton

“If the people of this nation understood our banking and monetary system, I believe there would be a revolution tomorrow morning.”

— Salman Rushdie

“The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery.”

— Ulysses S. Grant

Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order.

— Irving Howe

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

Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea left.

— Karen Tumulty