“A reformation is brought about by the steady but gradual march of truth, while a revolution, like the earthquake, too often upheaves… — Henry Hilliard Copy Share Image
The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. Paul Cezanne” — Paul Cézanne Copy Share Image
I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
Inner Transformation of human beings is about moving from unwillingness to willingness. That is a silent revolution. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“إنتفض بين ضلوعي كالثوار فأنا أحبك حتى الشهادة Tremble between my ribs as a revolutionist I love you until you become a martyr.” — Amany Al-Hallaq 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
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Education should not be about building more schools and maintaining a system that dates back to the Industrial Revolution. We can achieve… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has… — Agnes Smedley Copy Share Image
“I think the whole student rebellion is not really a rebellion at all…They want a certain kind of identity; they're jockeying with… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Revolutions as often take place because the old regime simply collapse out of economic inefficiency and bureaucratic rigidity rather than for the… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
“The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Keep in mind our Constitution predates the Industrial Revolution. Our founders did not know about electricity, the train, telephones, radio, television, automobiles,… — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
This is education, understood as a help to life; an education from birth, which feeds a peaceful revolution and unites all in… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Women as a class have never subjugated another group; we have never marched off to wars of conquest in the name of… — Susan Brownmiller Copy Share Image
“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me.… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
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
The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the… — Mao Zedong 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
“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
A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all. — H. G. Wells 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
We have this revolution that's happening in our lifetime. The Information Revolution is changing absolutely every industry and every part of life… — Pete Cashmore 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
This is the end and the beginning of an age. This is something far greater than the French Revolution or the Reformation… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust. — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery:… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear; you will reach your destination.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
I was never in favor of violence. I am always in favor of expressing anger, though. I am always in favor of… — Margarethe von Trotta Copy Share Image
The fist of a revolutionist must be hard like a gravestone; if not, his own gravestone will soon be erected! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. — Karl Marx 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