There is a tendency to over-exaggerate and over-romanticise the place of a writer in a revolution. That bothers me. I think it's… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
I'm not in the business of bayoneting the wounded. I feel the blockchain revolution is kind of my victory. I don't care… — Patrick M. Byrne Copy Share Image
Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
The nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization. — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep… — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau Copy Share Image
“ Fantasy. Lunacy. All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s,… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American! — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
“President Bo Haydn was bent over the Resolute desk, snoring gently with the tip of his nose submerged in a half-eaten bowl… — James Allen Moseley Copy Share Image
We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution… — Nikolai Bukharin Copy Share Image
Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The passage of the mythological hero may be over ground, incidentally; fundamentally it is inward--into depths where obscure resistances are overcome, and… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Should ardent spirits be everywhere banished from the list of drinks, it will be a revolution not the least remarkable in this… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I am Trella the victorious leader of the Force of Sheep rebellion. Yes the name sounds ridiculous, and I still can't believe… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
“In the future no one will kill anyone, the earth will shine, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
People of Haiti, I am the heir to the political philosophy, the doctrine and the revolution which my late father incarnated as… — Jean-Claude Duvalier Copy Share Image
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a… — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
“Liberation as an intellectual mission, born in the resistance and opposition to the confinements and ravages of imperialism, has now shifted from… — Edward W. Said Copy Share Image
In the political, the social, the economic, even the cultural sphere, the revolutions of our time have been revolutions "against" rather than… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology,… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
“This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon 's despotism or ideology. It has… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“... that with the defeat of the revolutionary workers, Europe finally fell back into its old double slavery, into Anglo-Russian slavery. The… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
“The French Revolution, which is nothing more nor less than the ideal armed with the sword, rose abruptly, and by that very… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She's the only country in history in a position actually to… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
“The Russian civil war was won in 1919, but sealed the fate of the revolution, as the victory over the Whites was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of examples of how things could… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
A rousing tale of techno-geek rebellion, as necessary and dangerous as file sharing, free speech, and bottled water on a plane. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“Our revolution has made me feel the full force of the axiom that history is fiction and I am convinced that chance… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
“by 1945 few people believed any longer in the magic of the market. This was an intellectual revolution.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“He saw the marching, shouting crowd as the image of Europe and its history. Europe was the Grand March. The march from… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“The magic of the revolution had joined with people's fear of death, their horror of torture, their anguish when the first breath… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. — John Boehner Copy Share Image
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
An uprising would punish only the country, and that is out of the question. But there is yet another approach, the most… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power… — John Keble Copy Share Image
Effective resistance to usurpers is possible only provided the citizens understand their rights and are disposed to defend them. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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