Revolutions Quotes

Poverty is the mother of all revolutions

— Motsoko Pheko

Revolutions are not made for export.

— Nikita Khrushchev

Revolutions are born of hope.

— Crane Brinton

“Revolutions are infinite.”

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Revolutions never go backwards.

— Anonymous

Revolutions go not backward.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All revolutions are violent revolutions.

— Paul Watson

Feminism is small revolutions, every day

— Manju Kapur

The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.

— Seth Godin

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

— Aristotle

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

— Francois Duvalier

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

— Anonymous

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.

— Socrates

All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.

— Nawal El Saadawi

All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable

— Albie Sachs

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

— Edmund Burke

Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

— Chester Himes

The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over…

— Anonymous

Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.

— Margaret Mead

I developed the Clock Theory to help me time records; you know, spin the record back two revolutions or whatever and then…

— Grandmaster Flash

“People want only special revolutions, in externals, in politics, and so on. But that's just tinkering. What is really is called for…

— Hendrik Ibsen

We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads…

— Thomas Merton

It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make…

— Abraham Lincoln

“I've got nothing to offer you kids but these noodles. They're good noodles but they won't change the world.”

— Madeleine Thien

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotives of world history. But the situation may be quite different. Perhaps revolutions are not the…

— Walter Benjamin

The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots…

— Wadah Khanfar

“Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“People must hope so much when they tear streets up and fight at barricades. But, whoever wins, the streets are laid again…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Revolutions can no longer be achieved by minorities. No matter how energetic and intelligent a minority may be, it is not enough,…

— Jean Jaures

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk…

— Mark Twain

“In order to mount a revolution, numbers are never enough. Revolutions are usually made by small networks of agitators rather than by…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Textbooks, however, being pedagogic vehicles for the perpetuation of normal science, have to be rewritten in whole or in part whenever the…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“Revolutions are not always brought about by a gradual decline from bad to worse. Nations that have endured patiently and almost unconsciously…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“THE LAST 500 YEARS HAVE WITNESSED A breathtaking series of revolutions. The earth has been united into a single ecological and historical…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life-- as if life could…

— Boris Pasternak

“We seek to uncover behind the events changes in the collective consciousness. We reject wholesale references to the “spontaneity” of the movement,…

— Leon Trotsky

“Imagine a world where people were 10% happier and less reactive. Marriage, parenting, road rage, politics - all would be improved upon.…

— Dan Harris

First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without…

— Malcolm X

We should all be aware of the fact that when revolutionary - not evolutionary - changes come, things can get even worse.…

— Vladimir Putin