And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
As we are now engaged in this contest, all my wishes, all my desires and all the energies of my hand and… — Jubal Early Copy Share Image
I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in… — Steve Zahn Copy Share Image
The destruction of Chinese traditional culture didn't start in 1949. It started long before that, with the succession of revolutions. It was… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise.… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
The days of the Mosaic creation are not to be strictly construed as implying the same length of time which is at… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
Big data will never give you big ideas... Big data doesn't facilitate big leaps of the imagination. It will never conjure up… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
A Christian's first duty is to God. It then follows, as a matter of course, that it is his duty to carry… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
'Robopocalypse' explores the intertwined fates of regular people who face a future filled with murderous machines. It follows them as humanity foments… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
Before, revolutions used to have ideological names. They could be communist, they could be liberal, they could be fascist or Islamic. Now,… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
Nan Kempner wore one of the first Saint Laurent trouser suits to one of those fancy Madison Avenue restaurants and was denied… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Of all the writers I have read, Vladimir Nabokov has made the biggest impression on me because he, despite living through the… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If all properly economic problems were solved once for all . . . the social struggle and strife would . . .… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
Live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. I realized today that if I stay on a… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
I'd probably try to stop the rain forests from being cut down. I'd probably join the revolution down south somewhere and try… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
“They came to believe their doctors were holding back limited quantities of a cure, and attempted to take them hostage. They formed… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Some years ago, I read Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, and I was very taken by the way he told… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Of course there are many factors that led to the Iranian revolution, but back in 1951, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company - which… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
The single-hearted unity is the lifeblood of Juche Korea and the dynamic force for a leap forward, and we must invariably follow… — Kim Jong-un Copy Share Image
“A country ruled by criminals needs two revolutions, one small and one big: The small revolution is to overthrow the criminal government,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Love is something huge You’ll find out that Even if there were revolution in the whole wide world Still somewhere on green… — Jaroslav Seifert Copy Share Image
“The history of colonization, imperialism is a record of betrayal, of lies, and deceits. The demand for that which is real is… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
When it comes to deep and difficult ethical matters - such as the relation of an individual to God, or, I think,… — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Throughout the history of the United States , war has been the primary impetus behind the growth and development of the central… — Bruce D. Porter Copy Share Image
The revolutions of my century, the 20th century - the Soviet revolution, or the Chinese, or the revolutions that were fomented in… — Stephane Hessel Copy Share Image
I was born in April of 1966, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. Soon after, my parents and grandparents all lost… — Li Lu Copy Share Image
Literary revolution and revolutionary literature did not create a beautiful new world but instead divested literature of its basic nature, promoted violence,… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“he beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and the grand figure of France spring forth from the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Your circumstances will only change when you begin to question them. Change begins with a question. Revolutions start with a question. Revolutionize… — Mirtha Michelle Copy Share Image
“So it might be speculated that the British exported their dissidents and so suffered their revolution three thousand miles away from home… — Timothy C.W. Blanning Copy Share Image
People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“After Georgia’s humiliation in 2008, Yanukovych repudiated the Orange Revolution by winning the next Ukrainian presidential election in 2010, setting Moscow further… — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I have a nice little idea from some people I met there who are now in their seventies, and I want to… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image