Revolution Quotes
2016 Revolution quotes by 1185 unique authors
-
If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over.
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
-
No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic…
— Boris Pasternak
-
The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and…
— Azar Nafisi
-
No Man has a more perfect reliance on the all-wise and powerful dispensations of the Supreme Being than I have, nor thinks his aid more…
— George Washington
-
When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?'…
— Haruki Murakami
-
Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if…
— Ian Mcewan
-
A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.
— Elie Wiesel
-
But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
-
The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.
— Richelle Mead
-
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We…
— Chuck Palahniuk
-
...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
— Aldous Huxley
-
Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy
— Kenneth Rexroth
-
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution
— George Orwell
-
[Librarians] are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess…
— Michael Moore
-
Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly…
— John Dewey
-
It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that,…
— Ann Druyan
-
[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have…
— John Adams
-
Let justice be done though the heavens should fall.
— John Adams
-
A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the…
— Samuel Adams
-
The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I Am Not A Virginian, But An American!
— Patrick Henry
-
The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If…
— Patrick Henry
-
Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any…
— Patrick Henry
-
Our properties within our own territories [should not] be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
— Thomas Jefferson
-
Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of…
— Benjamin Rush
-
We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.
— Suzanne Collins
Who Wrote These Revolution Quotes
1,185 authors contributed a total of 2,016 Revolution Quotes, led by these top contributors: