The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“We need a revolution in academia, with every social science attempting to understand the causes of happiness.” — Richard Layard Copy Share Image
“In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live. — Jenny Hval Copy Share Image
A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope,… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it. — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image
I could take everything I have built up over 35 years in my ministry and destroy it all if I went out… — David Jeremiah Copy Share Image
In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Law is justice. In this proposition a simple and enduring government can be conceived. And I defy anyone to say how even… — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
“Science, industry and military technology intertwined only with the advent of the capitalist system and the Industrial Revolution. Once this relationship was… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“When a pebble is thrown into a lake, everything, down to the furthermost depths, moves with it. ... And if, afterwards, everything… — Théophile Thoré Copy Share Image
All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of… — Lewis Nkosi Copy Share Image
Some socialist movements in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain, for instance, were genuine. I was making films about the so-called Arab Spring, and… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
In 1800, in the first interparty contest, the Federalists warned that presidential candidate Thomas Jefferson, because of his sympathy expressed at the… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The result of this anti-classical revolution you had just before World War I was that today, almost all the economic growth in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
“The difficulties connected with my criterion of demarcation (D) are important, but must not be exaggerated. It is vague, since it is… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic… — Marion Nestle Copy Share Image
The French Revolution gave us three... powerful ideas, or concepts - liberty, equality and fraternity. But these ideas... are not only right… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
“Inclusive economic and political institutions do not emerge by themselves. They are often the outcome of significant conflict between elites resisting economic… — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
“It was not yet known how the Revolution would develop. But Upton supposed that the arguments of the philosophical anarchists were most… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on… — Joseph John Thomson Copy Share Image
We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“He had let Aunt Peg live in his house and married her, so clearly he had a thing for flaky American types… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“And Leites and Wolf were wrong. “It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place,… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people. — George Washington Copy Share Image
During his campaign, [Donald] Trump promised the biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution in the 1980s. — Kelly McEvers Copy Share Image
Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The idea of a rock band to me is the ultimate in subversion, in leading the charge to revolution. My fave part… — Eddie Pepitone Copy Share Image
My own family went through its own difficulties in the Cultural Revolution, perhaps in a milder form than many other people. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
War means an ugly mob-madness, crucifying the truth tellers, choking the artists, sidetracking reforms, revolutions, and the working of social forces — John Reed Copy Share Image
The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on… — George Mason Copy Share Image
You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom. — Immortal Technique Copy Share Image
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework. — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image