Revolution Quotes

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The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913. — Frank Chodorov
Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions — Carroll Quigley
Haiti was founderd by a righteous revolution in 1804 and became the first black republic. It was the first country to break the chains of… — Paul Farmer
The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from… — Voltairine de Cleyre
We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose… — Buenaventura Durruti
The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot
The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. — Bryan Magee
The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of… — Arthur Hertzberg
The Arabs were Germany's natural friends...They were therefore prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate in a war,… — Haj Amin al-Husseini
Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest — Adam Braun
The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate. — Karl Hess
But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in… — Erik Brynjolfsson
To read Lucia St. Clair Robson is to learn while being thoroughly entertained. Last Train from Cuernavaca puts us through the tragic violence and political… — James Alexander Thom
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background. — Kim Jong Il
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake. — Aristotle
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to… — Joseph Conrad
More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and… — Albert Camus
Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. — Wyndham Lewis
The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the… — Eric Hoffer
Although a system may cease to exist in the legal sense or as a structure of power, its values (or anti-values), its philosophy, its teachings… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum. — John Kenneth Galbraith
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the… — Harold Rosenberg
The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Riots are the voices of the unheard. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when… — Hubert H. Humphrey

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