“In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.” — victor hugo Copy Share Image
Revolutions are all based on the false idea that humans and their nature can be changed. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Revolutions can, and often have, begun with reading. The Doctor and the Saint” — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I'm so proud that women are playing a great role in these demonstrations, in this so-called revolution. Because our women showed that… — Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Copy Share Image
[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives… — James Otis Copy Share Image
A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Until the Quiet Revolution gave women back their bodies and Quebeckers back their lives. It invited the church to leave the womb… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
To me it's really...it's so simple... that life should be lived on the edge of life. You have to exercise rebellion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failure.” — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
This revolution began with young people in Syria demonstrating because they wanted a future. They wanted opportunity, education, and so forth. They… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age,… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The arrival of television established a mass-media order that dominated the last 50 years. This is a personal media revolution. The distinction… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
I was surprised by how forces in the community could mobilize against a community changing. There were many examples of this. In… — Richard Benjamin Copy Share Image
It is common to speak of the economic opportunities tackling climate change represents, and there is a lot of truth to this:… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
But above all, what this Congress can be remembered for is opening the way to a new American revolutiona peaceful revolution in… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Here is the salient fact which distinguishes the English Revolution from all others: that those who wielded irresistible physical force were throughout… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy. The… — Sylvia Ostry Copy Share Image
I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
According to Melissa Mailey, we now live in a world where kings and noblemen rule the roost. And they've turned all of… — Michael Stearns Copy Share Image
“In 1991, though, began an uprising that would propel those reptilian Republicans from a tiny splinter group into the state’s dominant political… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image