In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Another way of remaining in intimacy with God is by remaining in His presence.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet. — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
“In reality the mere privations is not enoughto cause an insurrection: if it were the masses would always be in revolt” — Trotsky Copy Share Image
We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Revolution does have to be violent precisely because the Pharaoh won't let you go. If the Pharaoh would let you go, the… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
We need a Moneyball revolution in the NFL. We need Spread teams and Run and Shoot teams and Option teams. — Ben Domenech 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
As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war. — Mao Zedong 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
Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act. — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Sitting here at the beginning of the 21st century, we're only 200 years into the industrial revolution. We don't have an enormous… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
When you say 'revolution' when you have only men outside, you know that something is going wrong. I'm not like a hardcore… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
“On the political Right, the erosion of state power by international capitalism seems natural; on the political Left, rudderless revolutions portray themselves… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The only way, they argued, to prevent a revolution was to rule Russia with an iron hand. This meant defending the autocratic… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Despite a certain amount of rhetoric, such as 'the second American Revolution,' there is a fair consensus about which events in the… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
What is interesting about the revolts is that they show that there is never anything purely spontaneous, and there is always some… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
“I gave up trying to establish where progress lay, and where revolution, or to see the plot -- as Amparo's [Brazilian] comrades… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“German resistance continued to present a hodgepodge of fanaticism amid disorder. A British patrol entering a deserted village east of Valenciennes in… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
“It is true that from time to time Jews suffered from the fury of an exploited peasantry or their competitors. But from… — Israel Shamir Copy Share Image
The birth control pill, to a great degree, made possible the (hetero)sexual revolution. Yet those who developed oral contraceptives did not intend… — Beth Bailey Copy Share Image
“Where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice? Oh my brothers, this is the junction between… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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