Revolution Quotes

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Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under protection of habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, these principles form the… — Thomas Jefferson
No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for… — Giuseppe Mazzini
Every time you understand something, religion becomes less likely. Only with the discovery of the double helix and the ensuing genetic revolution have we had… — James D. Watson
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear.… — Henry Ward Beecher
History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat. — Rosa Luxemburg
What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial… — Leo Tolstoy
What is the revolution that we need? We need to dissolve the lie that some people have a right to think of other people as… — Barbara Deming
In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries… — Walter Wink
All revolutions devour their own children. — Ernst Rohm
Revolutions never go backward. — William H. Seward
Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately,… — Mao Zedong
Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals. — Unknown Author
Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution — Tony Benn
You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela. — Che Guevara
It's good for a country to have a revolution every 20 years. I hope that's not where we're going. But, you know, if this Congress… — Sharron Angle
Suns are extinguished or become corrupted, planets perish and scatter across the wastes of the sky; other suns are kindled, new planets formed to make… — Baron d'Holbach
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized… — Marilyn Ferguson
It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was… — Thomas Paine
Almost everybody today believes that nothing in economic history has ever moved as fast as, or had a greater impact than, the Information Revolution. But… — Peter Drucker
A revolution in humanity's use of fossil fuel-based energy would be necessary sooner or later to sustain and to extend modern standards of living. It… — Ross Garnaut
There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge. — Francesco Guicciardini
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation. — Woodrow Wilson
Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the… — Abraham Lincoln

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