The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
If you make peaceful revolution impossible you make violent revolution inevitable. — John F Kennedy Copy Share Image
All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable — Albie Sachs Copy Share Image
“It's hard to start a revolution when your face is six feet from your television.” — Grant Peeples Copy Share Image
“Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion.” — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality… — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.' — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are… — Sergey Nechayev Copy Share Image
Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty,… — Plato Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
The Creative Revolution is over. Everybody is justholding onto their jobs and no one is ever going to say toa client... ‘Buy… — Jerry Della Femina Copy Share Image
America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
I literally would go to see Tina Turner any opportunity I had because being in the presence of Tina Turner was like… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
“Laugh and cry and tell stories. Sad stories about bodies stolen, bodies no longer here. Enraging stories about the false images, devastating… — Eli Clare Copy Share Image
A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
The YouTube revolution isn't a revolution in content consumption, although there's a huge number of content consumers. It's about how anybody with… — Tim Sweeney Copy Share Image
“The man who no longer expects miraculous changes either from a revolution or from an economic plan is not obliged to resign… — Raymond Aron Copy Share Image
“Accustomed as we are by heredity prejudices and our unsound education and training to represent ourselves the beneficial hand of Government, legislation… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“The revolution had come too late for him. He was in his midforties when the Civil Rights Act was signed and close… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
“...you can jail revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution. You might run a liberator like Eldridge Cleaver out of the country,… — Fred Hampton Copy Share Image
Russia is now recognized as the center of the global 'mutiny' against global dictatorship of the US and EU. Its generally peaceful… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Our enemies are all those in league with imperialism - the warlords, the bureaucrats, the comprador class, the big Landlord class and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They… — Novalis Copy Share Image