Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“These revolutions are born of hope, and their philosophies are formally optimistic.” — Brinton Crane Copy Share Image
“Parties do not lead revolutions. They follow them. And then only when forced to.” — Joe Bageant Copy Share Image
“Right. I’m sure that poor etiquette is the number one reason for most failed revolutions.” — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
If you can give away free music, you can give away free electricity, free water. Those tiny jabs at a larger infrastructure… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations,… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Up until the nineteenth century, the vast majority of military revolutions were the product of organisational rather than technological changes.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“It has been said that most revolutions are not caused by revolutionaries in the first place, but by the stupidity and brutality… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this fact is recognized,—that the human race has been treated… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I'm not a big believer in revolutions. What people call revolutions in technology were more of a shift in perception - from… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
For hundreds of millions of people, the fall of the Berlin Wall was a great triumph: The moment marked the end of… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
There are varieties of theories of revolution. According to one of these theories, only one of these theories, revolutions occur when there… — Akbar Ganji Copy Share Image
I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the… — Daphne Guinness Copy Share Image
Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
To trace the series of these revolutions, to explain their causes, and thus to connect together all the indications of change that… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the… — Joseph Sobran 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
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Change in my work happens not in revolutions - it's more evolutionary. — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
“Where do I start? Revolutions to plot. Enemies to crush. Handsome men to rescue.” — Kate Elliott Copy Share Image
