Revolution Quotes

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If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. — Malcolm X
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution! — Albert Einstein
But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. — Terry Pratchett
Even revolution, which transforms a concrete situation of oppression by establishing the process of liberation, must confront this phenomenon. Many of the oppressed who directly… — Paulo Freire
... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding… — Gregory Maguire
The Gospel lives in conversation with culture, and if the Church holds back from the culture, the Gospel itself falls silent. Therefore, we must be… — Pope John Paul II
Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions — Victor Hugo
If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow. — Victor Hugo
Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward. — Abraham Lincoln
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it. — Vladimir Lenin
All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its… — Henry David Thoreau
To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for… — Oscar Wilde
You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you,… — Tennessee Williams
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other"… — Edward Said
Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must… — Audre Lorde
Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on… — Karl Marx
Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate… — Herbert Marcuse
A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution. — Catherine Ryan Hyde
The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There… — Machado de Assis
Doubt--because doubt is not a sin, it is a sign of your intelligence. You are not responsible to any nation, to any church, to any… — Rajneesh
Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill. — Jean Sasson
Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests… — Mark Helprin
Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his… — Milan Kundera
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely… — Mao Zedong
We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November,… — William Peter Blatty

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