It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“When enough people realize that they are slaves but don't have to be, revolutions happen.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
“A machine for making revolutions is doing precisely the wrong thing at just the right time.” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them. — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
“I'm a student of history. Revolutions only get names after it's clear who won.” — G Willow Wilson Copy Share Image
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
“in the American and French Revolutions. Equality was then understood primarily as a relation, as a way of making a society, of… — Pierre Rosanvallon Copy Share Image
“The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Revolutionary ideas may be wonderful, but revolutions are nasty. You can't cure a headache by cutting off the patients head.” — Joel Shepherd Copy Share Image
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They… — Millard Fillmore Copy Share Image
All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
If ever America undergoes great revolutions, they will be brought about by the presence of the black race on the soil of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The greatest historical events in the twentieth century - in fact, in all of human history - have been the overthrow of… — Grover Furr Copy Share Image
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
“There are major revolutions every few hundred years--humanity seems to depend on things being shaken up from time to time, to remind… — K.J. Wetherholt Copy Share Image
It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
“The most violent revolutions in an individual's beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature… — William James Copy Share Image
Everyone loves his own country, customs, language, wife, children, not because they are the best in the world, but because they are… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
In retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. Beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible. — Michael McFaul Copy Share Image
Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top. — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore. — Chuck D Copy Share Image
Revolutions are never waged singing "We Shall Overcome." Revolutions are based upon bloodshed. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The reason for all revolutions is discontent with the contentment of others. — Sigmund Graff Copy Share Image
“Scientific revolutions tend to emerge not from a sudden discovery but by asking better questions” — Lisa Feldman Barrett Copy Share Image
