Lincoln was a modernizer, so to speak. He believed in economic development. As a Whig before the war he favored what we… — Eric Foner 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
There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision global democratic revolution… — Michael A. Ledeen Copy Share Image
A revolution without a prior reformation would collapse or become a totalitarian tyranny. A reformation means that masses of our people have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Objects of the most stupendous magnitude, and measure in which the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn are intimately interested, are… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands… — Adam Weishaupt Copy Share Image
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
...the transition from capitalism to Socialism and the liberation of the working class from the yoke of capitalism cannot be effected by… — J. Stalin Copy Share Image
Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Snowpiercer has both [optimistic and pessimistic]. It was essentially optimistic. The most pessimistic was my part, because of his knowledge. He knows… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Man, I would have loved to have been fully cognisant of the power of Janis Joplin. I would have loved to have… — Holly Hunter Copy Share Image
We need a growing middle class, not one that has been disappearing for 40 years. We need a vibrant one person-one vote… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The fact that we have been able to perturb the carbon cycle with our industrial revolution is evidence of how vulnerable we… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Market capitalism survived and prospered after the boom-bust industrial revolution of the 19th century, and the Great Depression and world wars of… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
“Revolution thus ran its course from city to city, and the places which it arrived at last, from having heard what had… — Thucydides Copy Share Image