Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
From its earliest days, the Cuban Revolution has also been a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people. We admire the sacrifices… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The marginalized did not create identity politics: their identities have been forced on them by dominant groups, and politics is the most… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The history of the industrial revolution shows how that power passed from the king and the aristocracy to the bourgeoisie. Universal suffrage… — edward bernays Copy Share Image
How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy… — Adam Hochschild 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
When many Chinese escaped to North Korea during the Cultural Revolution, we embraced them. People in China have forgotten about this. — Lee Hyeon-seo Copy Share Image
“Someone said that revolutions are begun by idealists and ended by the scoundrels who destroy the idealists.” — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place. — Ignazio Silone Copy Share Image
In the past few decades, there has been a revolution in how we perceive the body. What appears to be an object,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
But I confess that "my mind to me a kingdom is" - not! Rather it is a fantastical republic, daily troubled by… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed… — Christiane Amanpour Copy Share Image
“No gleam of reason, no momentary return to first principles, no abstract asking of any obvious question, can interrupt this mad and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Art is fueled by rebellion: the need, in some amounting to obsessions, to resist what is, to defy one's elders, even to… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own. — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
“While a battle still entirely political was preparing in this same place which had already seen so many revolutionary events, while the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If a working class Englishman saw a bloke drive past in a Rolls-Royce, he'd say to himself "Come the social revolution and… — Kerry Packer Copy Share Image
You and I love understanding American Revolution, but let's also understand the digital revolution, because that makes us more comfortable with our… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
“Are you the fruit of redemption? If yes, then make a delightful noise unto Him.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“For virtually all the socialist revolutions of the twentieth century, it was not a crisis of the capitalist system, but imperialist war… — S.A. Smith Copy Share Image
I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“In our time, the world created by the Enlightenment is strong, active, and exuberant. For a while in the past century, socialists… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they… — Barbara Bergmann Copy Share Image
The students I've been with these twenty years are looking for a world where it becomes a little easier to love and… — Colman McCarthy Copy Share Image
The Constitutional framers were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I am an abolitionist. What does this mean? Abolitionist resistance and resilience draws from a legacy of black-led anti-colonial struggle in the… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
“The age demands violence, but we are getting only abortive explosions. Revolutions are nipped in the bud, or else succeed too quickly.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We have the State Department working together with Google, MTV, MSNBC, Facebook, all of these - all of these giant corporations. Google… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
![“How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth; you can sense the vast inequalities of Tsarist Russia in [Anton] Chekhov and [Lev] Tolstoy.” quote by Adam Hochschild](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/544/adam-hochschild-4138_chekhov_how-many-really-great-writers-are-there_1459719.jpg)
