“I daresay something will happen, between now and ’91, to make your fortunes look up.” — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“i love myself.' the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution. ever.” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
Unfortunately I've gotten more resistance in the last year than I ever have. — Keith Fullerton Whitman Copy Share Image
No dictatorship can be sustained within the context of an information revolution. — Li Lu Copy Share Image
This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Lopez Obrador invokes the appeal of national unity, the revolution of 1910, and the progressive constitution of 1917. — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
“The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“The authenticity of any new society is built on the foundation of the ethics of that revolution.” — Curtiss Paul DeYoung Copy Share Image
The man who carried out the attack is still in power and still insane, so we shall expect another attack any minute. — Muammar al-Gaddafi Copy Share Image
“It was Jefferson’s genius that kept the American Revolution from being sucked into the tunnel faster than it was. Jefferson had red… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
INSURRECTION, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
In the biotech revolution, it is the human body, not iron or steel or plastic, that's at the source. Are the biocapitalists… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
“The transition from the good man to the saint is a sort of revolution; by which one for whom all things illustrate… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve,… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The Syrians lost out because they happened to have their revolution during an election cycle in America, France, and bizarrely, some kind… — Paul Conroy Copy Share Image
...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Checklists turn out...to be among the basic tools of the quality and productivity revolution in aviation, engineering, construction - in virtually every… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Successful revolutionaries do occasionally end up in positions of power, but they seem more likely, on the historical record, to end up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What we're thinking about is a peaceful planet. We're not thinking about anything else. We're not thinking about any kind of power.… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“This is a classic ploy familiar to revolutionary leaders throughout history: the failure of the revolution proves the need to radicalize it.… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“Echoing right-wing racist rhetoric, liberal organizations routinely smear "illegitimate," nonpacifist resistance as senseless and the work of irrational "thugs." And yet it… — Tipu's Tiger Copy Share Image
“On a social level, secularism is safe. As literally the world's most fundamental conformist, the secularist wants to call himself a revolutionary… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I am against revolution and am proud of it. Democracy cannot be created through revolutions. The most important dichotomy that I make… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
I was raised in a typical Puritan Midwestern Methodist home and there was a lot of hurt and hypocrisy in those times.… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
