Revolution Quotes
2016 Revolution quotes by 1185 unique authors
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Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.
— John H. Vincent
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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became…
— Maggie Gallagher
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We've seen the transformation of America, when at the pinnacle of its Christianity was probably in the 1950s. Ever since then it has been declining,…
— Scott Lively
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People from pre-sexual revolution and even from the 60s and the birth of the gay movement still define gay as two men or two women…
— Dustin Lance Black
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Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality - because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the twisted…
— Hugh Hefner
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The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.
— Steven Levy
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We have come a long way in America because of Martin Luther King, Jr. He led a disciplined, nonviolent revolution under the rule of law,…
— John Lewis
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The tradition of nonviolence, optimism, concern for the individual, and unconditional compassion that developed in Tibet is the culmination of a slow inner revolution, a…
— Robert Thurman
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires.
— Socrates
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One makes whatever revolution one can, each in their own way.
— Unknown Author
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Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth;…
— Socrates
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Dreams have consequences. There is no turning back. A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a…
— Hisham Matar
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This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black…
— David W. Blight
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A new politics can spark the clean-energy revolution that will serve as a foundation for a new era of human prosperity, protect the world's forests,…
— Eban Goodstein
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During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that, as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly…
— Ronald Reagan
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Revolution is the larva of civilization.
— Victor Hugo
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It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous.
— James Russell Lowell
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Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.
— Thomas Paine
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None but tyrants have any business to be afraid.
— Unknown Author
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