“Revolutions are rarely if ever majoritarian but instead are usually propelled by a small group that is disciplined and fanatical to which… — Frederic C. Rich Copy Share Image
If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“I meant the moral to be that revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
'Revolutions' was beyond my wildest dreams. I just really enjoyed it so much visually, the action and then the story and the… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the… — Henry George Copy Share Image
Revolutions are notorious for allowing even non-participants -- even women! -- new scope for telling the truth since they are themselves such… — Selma James Copy Share Image
And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different,… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“While the characters of men are forming, as is always the case in revolutions, there is a reciprocal suspicion, and a disposition… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I've been on the edge of everything, like one of those characters at the side of a Brueghel painting with a warty… — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real… — Ernest Mandel Copy Share Image
Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past.… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically… — H. Richard Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas. — Manuel Gonzalez Flores Copy Share Image
There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“In the history of battles and wars, the massacres of civilians were the main reason of revolutions success.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
“With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.” — Arnold Beichman Copy Share Image
We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
I realized we were going through one of the greatest revolutions that ever hit the history of the world - the information… — David Steward Copy Share Image
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Thanks to Twitter, I learn about the revolutions in the Middle East via Arab activists and writers, not just from American foreign… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
There were two, three or four French Revolutions. Like a multi-stage rocket today, the Revolution involved several successive explosions and propellant thrusts. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
“Most revolutions start small and simmer under the surface gathering strength, adding to an ideology, gaining favourable opinion- first as a credible… — Gyan Nagpal Copy Share Image
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
The big honour of the big revolutions belongs to the high intelligence who design the revolution, not to the masses who support… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The Arab world had a big problem of frankly venal elites. That is why these revolutions happen, because people didn't think the… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“By now there were whole new Industrial Revolutions going on in the Low Earths; the British seemed to have the building of… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
Since we're each unique, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
But the revolutions and changes which are responsible for the present state of the earth are not limited to the upsetting of… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
