All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“All revolutions are impossible till they happen, then they become inevitable.” — Randy Bartlett Copy Share Image
“Then how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Revolutions come about when small things happen to small people.” — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Someone said that revolutions are begun by idealists and ended by the scoundrels who destroy the idealists.” — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
Now we are immersed in deep democratic revolutions, for the recovery of our resources, and to transform a resource into a basic… — Evo Morales Copy Share Image
“I wonder Why we make huge revolutions and then the result is zero of hopes,freedom or even to find the food !” — Abeer Almadawy عبير المعداوي Copy Share Image
“Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.” — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses,… — Lee Harvey Oswald Copy Share Image
Among the many arguments to be made against cultural revolutions is that they are monotonous in spirit and monomaniacal in intention. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
One revolution is still necessary: the one that will not end with the rule of its leader. It will be the revolution… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“But all these revolutions resulted in good to the people. Education, public spirit, enterprise, labor, all the arts of civilization, and even… — E. E. (Ezra Eastman) Adams Copy Share Image
The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution,… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
“What doesn’t go back in the jar or the box are ideas. And revolutions are, most of all, made up of ideas.… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Some socialist movements in Egypt, Tunisia and Bahrain, for instance, were genuine. I was making films about the so-called Arab Spring, and… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
“Before I only wanted to change the world. I still want that, but it was ironic how I never wanted to change… — Viet Thanh Nguyen Copy Share Image
One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of mans experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
What is irreversible in the Arab world is this intellectual revolution, the awakening that we can get rid of dictators. That is… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions,… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
In the history of physics, there have been three great revolutions in thought that first seemed absurd yet proved to be true.… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the English,… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“as the mass of mankind remains always at about the same pitch of misery, it never assents long to any one remedy,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
A stomach without bread and a purse without gold have led to so many revolutions in history. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I think perhaps we manage our revolutions much more quietly in this country. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
