Revolution Quotes · Page 142

“The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our…

— Ulysses S. Grant

In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are…

— Hunter S. Thompson

You see all kinds of anarchic forms of rebellion, but the moment of preparation is when the Communists and other kinds of…

— Vijay Prashad

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.

— Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

— Louis L'Amour

Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day.

— William Shakespeare

To challenge norms, presuppositions, practices in communities across this country - where the unconscious valorization and celebration of whiteness and conscious resistance…

— Michael Eric Dyson

There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution.

— Imre Kertész

Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.

— Walter Rodney

“Dominate in your domain; You can do it.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

— Steve Wozniak

“Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so –…

— Robert Hughes

What happened in the late Fifties, early Sixties in French cinema was a fantastic revolution. I was in Italy, but completely in…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack.

— Ho Chi Minh

“...the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.”

— Susan B. Anthony

Poetry and prose can start a revolution, break walls, and ideas can build nations.

— Kanika Dhillon

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The Russian revolution did not occur until a generation after Marx's death. He was not involved with it, or with what came…

— Allen W. Wood

This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the…

— Errol Morris

I think I've always felt that I want to do a very specific type of work and I've made informed decisions. You…

— Zawe Ashton

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

— Mao Zedong

“How little imagination and courage we show in our hatreds. If we earn fifty cents an hour, we admire the rich and…

— Amor Towles

He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.

— Simon Bolivar

The Americans of 1776 were among the first men in modern society to defend rather than to seek an open society and…

— Clinton Rossiter

“You don't know how to respond," Ferrin said. "I'll make it easy for you. The safest course of action for your young…

— Brandon Mull

“How could you tell how much of it was lies? It might be true that the average human being was better off…

— George Orwell

We need to undergo a very radical revolution in values. And we need to think about what it's like to have become…

— Grace Lee Boggs

“Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion.”

— Steven Pressfield

Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by…

— Hilaire Belloc

“Genuine political resistance, to be effective, has to be more creative than simply using lethal weapons.”

— Charles E. Cobb Jr

Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

— Thomas Jefferson

If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and…

— Tony Benn

It hit me that an Apache resistance would be a wonderful, you know, it would be a wonderful metaphor for Jewish-American soldiers…

— Quentin Tarantino

Much as being active in the antislavery movement of the last century involved more than not engaging in slavery oneself, so joining…

— Sissela Bok

What does a political revolution look like? It means that 80 percent of the people vote in national elections, not 40 percent.…

— Bernie Sanders

“When there’s darkness, there are all kinds of evil things happening, rebellion is there, and corruption is operating.”

— Sunday Adelaja

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

— John F. Kennedy

I want the system to change so I think you could call that a revolution.

— Gail Bradbrook

One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution…

— Mohammad Marandi

“When we are connected to the source, we will not be afraid of any task set before us.”

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu