Revolution Quotes

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In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to… — Karl Marx
Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions are appropriate for… — Nicolaus Copernicus
The two revolutions, I mean the annual revolutions of the declination and of the centre of the Earth, are not completely equal; that is the… — Nicolaus Copernicus
A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize that we are indeed not… — Michael Hesemann
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. — Albert Camus
If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the… — Leon Trotsky
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of… — Adrienne Rich
You cannot make a revolution in white gloves. — Vladimir Lenin
In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat. — Martin Luther
It's not a revolution if nobody loses — Clay Shirky
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. — Lionel Trilling
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a… — Walter Lippmann
Some of the politicians in this country, in their feverish search for group acceptance, are ready to endorse tumultuous confrontation as a substitute for debate,… — Spiro T. Agnew
Revolutions are not made, they come. — Wendell Phillips
I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which… — Mark Twain
Rebellions tend to be negative, to denounce and expose the enemy without providing a positive vision of a new future...A revolution is not just for… — Grace Lee Boggs
I think we're not looking sufficiently at what is happening at the grassroots in the country. We have not emphasized sufficiently the cultural revolution that… — Grace Lee Boggs
What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive? — Yiyun Li
We are in the midst of a VoIP communications revolution, — Jeff Pulver

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