Revolution Quotes

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Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels… — Hilary Mantel
A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but… — Damian Marley
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a… — Wynton Marsalis
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen… — Karl Marx
Revolutions are the locomotives of history. — Karl Marx
The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour. — Karl Marx
Give me time and I'll give you a revolution. — Alexander McQueen
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion… — John Stuart Mill
We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under… — Henry Miller
A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression. — Kate Millett
The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the revolution, the Minutemen, and their… — Michael Moore
I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution. — Mohammed Morsi
Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution. — Elon Musk
Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before. — Nathan Myhrvold
Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution. — Vladimir Nabokov
I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of… — Howard Nemerov
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can't jail the Revolution. — Huey Newton
The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution. — Huey Newton
The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. — Huey Newton
Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. — Kwame Nkrumah
And if there's any hope for America, it lies in a revolution, and if there's any hope for a revolution in America, it lies in… — Phil Ochs
When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth… — John Boyd Orr
Indie music is 'it' now. It's kind of a revolution to the music: 1980s, 1990s music was getting very sanitized; they were complying with the… — Yoko Ono
When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions. — John Boyd Orr
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship. — George Orwell

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