Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible,will make violent revolutions inevitable. — John F Kennedy Copy Share Image
It is also false that the revolution ripens and comes to development only in the national soil. — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness. — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.' — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t change history. You can’t change the world. All… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The danger lies not in the imaginary hydra of revolution, but in a stubborn traditionalism that impedes progress.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I'm kind of calling for a - I'm not the only one - you know, a revolution of some kind where we… — Tim Wu Copy Share Image
“In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Our children's rebellion is not the problem. It is the symptom. Why they are rebelling is the problem. And unless we address… — Tim Kimmel Copy Share Image
There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and… — Nigel Gibson Copy Share Image
The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A ruler who discerning justice refuseth to it the sanction of law, demanding abnegation of rights and self-sacrifice, will not drive his… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
The idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760's was scarcely more than a century old. It had… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“This is the secret of the political history of modern India. Weakened by division, it succumbed to invaders; impoverished by invaders, it… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“The Manchester Act was a significant victory for the nascent cotton manufacturers. But its historical and economic significance was in fact much… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
Historians will look back on this era and how the Internet changed what we value, what we consider art, the way we… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
I was born in Cuba. At the age of 14 years of age I was involved in a revolution. We were suffering… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution A time where there's got to be a change. People in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image