Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution. — David Simon Copy Share Image
The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution. — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
“All across the region the sexual revolution would arrive by tank.” — David Burr Gerrard Copy Share Image
Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects. — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Life is a free-fall. So what better stance, than to be in let-go? Resistance is futile. — Swami Premodaya Copy Share Image
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognized: that the human race has been harshly… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." [ Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress , 13 March 1962]” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“It was the sealing of a bond forged in flight and fire. Two halves of a rebellion, finding their center in each… — Daemona Copy Share Image
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I've been saying we need a revolution, and there's no good shouting about it when you're not actually doing anything. — Bez Copy Share Image
“Give me liberty or give me death." [From a speech given at Saint John's Church in Richmond, Virginia on March 23, 1775… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working… — Alan Paton Copy Share Image
“I could not take one more minute of trying to convince the people of Los Angeles that a workers’ revolution and a… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence of the… — Robert Jastrow Copy Share Image
In the history and literature courses I took, epistemological questions came to interest me most. What makes one explanation of the French… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I think our concept of revolution, in terms of getting the power to do things, is too focused on the state. We… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“DANGER IN THE SKY In the year 2003, a tsunami of people washed away the government of Bolivia. The poor were sick… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
What is a labour victory? I maintain that it is a twofold thing. Workers must gain economic advantage, but they must also… — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Copy Share Image
America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Taking the line of least resistance, we lump the most different people together under the same heading. Taking the line of least… — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
“On a social level, secularism is safe. As literally the world's most fundamental conformist, the secularist wants to call himself a revolutionary… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
I was raised in a typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist home and there was a lot of hurt and hypocrisy in those times.… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
What we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. We're not thinking about anything else. We're not thinking about any kind of power.… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
The great revolution of the future will be Nature's revolt against man. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“The greatest act of revolution for any black woman is to put pen to paper with purpose.” — Stalina Goodwin Copy Share Image
Think what a revolution it will be if we manage to get everyone to pay their taxes. — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image