Revolution Quotes
2016 Revolution quotes by 1185 unique authors
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Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.
— Alice Walker
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The only way out is spiritual, intellectual, and emotional revolution in which, finally, we learn to experience first hand the interloping connections between person and…
— Gregory Bateson
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Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in…
— Barbara Deming
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The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the…
— Paul Tournier
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It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always…
— Adolf Hitler
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...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out
— Ingrid Newkirk
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Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it
— Otto von Bismarck
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If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.
— Clay Shirky
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The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
— Karl Liebknecht
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The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do…
— Unknown Author
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We stand for organized terror - this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution. Our aim is to fight…
— Felix Dzerzhinsky
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The breakup of Bell laid the foundation for every important communications revolution since the 1980s onward. There was no way of knowing that thirty years…
— Tim Wu
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The case for industry breakups comes from Thomas Jefferson's idea that occasional revolutions are important to the health of any system. As he wrote in…
— Tim Wu
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If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic perspective of butchers…
— Marion Nestle
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The old structure of the West as a synthesis of classical culture, Christianity, and the impulses of peoples entering history for the Žfirst time has…
— Unknown Author
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A man doesn't have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.
— Karen Hancock
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Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature. In a society accustomed to dominating or 'improving' nature, this respectful imitation is a radically new approach, a revolution really.…
— Janine Benyus
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In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution,…
— Nick Clooney
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The more revolutions occur, the less things change.
— Georgie Anne Geyer
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To make a revolution, people must not only struggle against existing institutions. They must make a philosophical/ spiritual leap and become more 'human' human beings.…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.
— Walter Rodney
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You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed…
— Don Tapscott
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Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.
— Nicolas Gomez Davila
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Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished.…
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
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