The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was… — Armand Hammer Copy Share Image
Imperialism has layed its body over the world, the head in Eastern Asia, the heart in the Middle East, its arteries reaching… — Ghassan Kanafani Copy Share Image
The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Revolution is profitable. So the capitalists sell it... The hip capitalists have some allies within the revolutionary community: longhairs who work as… — Jerry Rubin Copy Share Image
The inferior position of blacks, the exclusion of Indians from the new society, the establishment of supremacy for the rich and powerful… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror,… — Bono Copy Share Image
The Southern rebellion was largely the outgrowth of the Mexican war. Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions. We got our… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
One of the problems with traditional anti-capitalist thought is that it defines capitalism as a totality, which encourages us to imagine another… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the revolution? The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
People need to dance. I'd say dance at least twice a day. That's how to get your energy up and how you… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Napoleon had been fighting this army of slaves and free people in Haiti and it depleted his forces. And after the Revolution,… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
Let's dig deep to build the kind of police force that our fatherland really deserves. We need a revolution of the police… — Nicolas Maduro Copy Share Image
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, hand-production methods were abundant. Craft defined everything. The craftsman had an almost phenomenological knowledge of materials and… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
The ANC was the product of a much earlier South Africa, a gradualist and non-tribal multi-racial organisation, driven to violence by the… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
My adolescent rebellions took the form of, if anything, passive aggressively doing what was asked of me but doing it ten times… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“The power of resistance is to set an example: not necessarily to change the person with whom you disagree, but to empower… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization,… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
His [Marx's] most explosive and indeed most original contribution to the cause of revolution was that he interpreted the compelling needs of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
With this show [Stand-Up Revolution ], I loved the idea that I would be picking the talent that goes on, not the… — Gabriel Iglesias Copy Share Image
Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Unjust social orders do not fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
Poetry can change the world, just like any art can change the world, by changing consciousness. Of course this was the great… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training.… — Nelson Mandela 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
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
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to undergo a very radical revolution in values. And we need to think about what it's like to have become… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are living through the most profound changes in the economy since the Industrial Revolution. Technology, globalization, and the accelerating pace of… — Bruce Tulgan Copy Share Image