Revolution Quotes · Page 31

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the…

— Herbert Hoover

“And is it not sects, bodies of definite, uncompromising principles, that lead us into revolutions?”

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite…

— Christina Stead

Well, these tattoos aren't really rebellion. These tattoos are all tattoos I've had since I have been a pastor.

— Jay Bakker

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or…

— Mark Twain

Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Then how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

— Edward Abbey

The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700…

— Saoirse Ronan

In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.

— Friedrich Engels

For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free…

— Naomi Wolf

You don't wanna know the sinner. You don't wanna know the killer. Because it's you. Television is stalling evolution. Medication is stalling…

— Tablo

When people start to complain, "Voting doesn't matter," I'm like, the people of Wisconsin weren't boycotting and hitting the streets and blowing…

— Rosario Dawson

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major…

— Stanley Schmidt

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest…

— Randall Terry

A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to…

— William Powell

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

— Anais Nin

Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.

— Paul Carus

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

— Karl Marx

The Reagan Revolution has had no second act.

— H. W. Brands

“Crime is a rigid, unbending master, against whom no one can be strong except by total rebellion”

— Alessandro Manzoni

“Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a…

— Kamand Kojouri

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

— Robert Wyatt