A successful revolution establishes a new community. A missed revolution makes irrelevant the community that persists. And a compromised revolution tends to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
On how the motion of a planet defines its sphere: ... and thus it comes about gradually by the linking and accumulation… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I consider the war of America against Britain as the country's war, the public's war, or the war of the people in… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
If you want to be a great American, you have got to understand Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, how the American… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
In the end, we're just showmen. But, I think that it's an important factor. Not to be anything else but clear about… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In the new conditions created by the global economy, the information revolution and the growth of smart technologies, it is more necessary… — Ted Malloch Copy Share Image
What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men,… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed.… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day,… — Jean-Paul Marat Copy Share Image
To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Security was the demand which set in motion labour movements in history; trade unions, friendly societies, consumer cooperatives were all about compensating… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
People always said that I hated punk, and that really wasn't true. It was glossed over for many years that I was… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Of all the things that the digital revolution has produced, once of the coolest, simplest ones is you can now contact people… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm qualified to some degree to speak about the nature of contemporary media, as that's where I currently work. People,… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical… — John Frankenheimer Copy Share Image
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
One of the great famines in human history took place during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. [At the same time] Western journalists were… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“The moment you cross the border of your country to another, nature will blow you the breeze of revolution, no matter how… — Elijah Onyenmeriogu Copy Share Image
The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted,… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“They denounced him for his “Parliamentary Cretinism” and accused him of “providing relief to the people and thereby blunting the People’s Consciousness… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Girls are the White Album and they all have Revolution 9's. They have all that stuff you wish you could edit out.… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization… — Alice Schwarzer Copy Share Image
We want no revolution; we want the brotherhood of men. We want men to love one another. We want all men to… — Dorothy Day 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
As a theoretician, I am proud to be part of a counter revolution... discovering that quantum field theory language was not dead… — Peter Higgs Copy Share Image
My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . .… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Ukraine is a vital link for Europe: our energy transportation networks; our location between the European Union and Eurasia. We're the melting… — Yulia Tymoshenko Copy Share Image
Do not conquer the world with force, for force only causes resistance. Thorns spring up when an army passes. Years of misery… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the US, the Kosovo War was a success because it encouraged the development of the Pentagon's 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA).… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The Latin American cause is about all a social cause: the rebirth of Latin America must start with the overthrow of its… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies… — Martin Filler 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
If the perpetual oscillation of nations between anarchy and despotism is to be replaced by the steady march of self-restraining freedom, it… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
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