Revolution Quotes
2016 Revolution quotes by 1185 unique authors
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Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
— Germaine Greer
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The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.
— Germaine Greer
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
— Gail Collins
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The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
— Che Guevara
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The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away…
— Joseph Conrad
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I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
— Eugene V. Debs
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The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration…
— Paul Davies
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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one…
— Dorothy Day
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Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their…
— Denis Diderot
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I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the…
— Frederick Douglass
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Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.
— Havelock Ellis
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Revolutions go not backward.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of…
— Paul Engle
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Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.
— Rupert Everett
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We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions…
— George Farquhar
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If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This…
— Louis Farrakhan
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All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people's…
— Lupe Fiasco
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Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
— Dario Fo
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It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would…
— Henry Ford
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