Revolution Quotes

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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. — Hannah Arendt
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs,… — Hannah Arendt
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. — Aristotle
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at. — Bill Ayers
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. — Irving Babbitt
To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion. — Mikhail Bakunin
My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. — Bela Bartok
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. — John Quincy Adams
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character… — Bernard Baruch
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help… — Martha Beck
It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction. — Henry Ward Beecher
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by… — Isaiah Berlin
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. — Daniel Berrigan
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. — Ambrose Bierce
The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the… — Hugo Black
Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution. — John Boehner

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