Revolution Quotes
2016 Revolution quotes by 1185 unique authors
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The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
— John F. Kennedy
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We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.
— James Levine
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Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off one…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have…
— Georges Cuvier
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The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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The socialist system will eventually replace the capitalist system; this is an objective law independent of man's will. However much the reactionaries try to hold…
— Mao Zedong
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Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which…
— Mao Zedong
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Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist…
— Mao Zedong
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Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank". This may seem a bad…
— Mao Zedong
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After the countrywide victory of the Chinese revolution and the solution of the land problem, two basic contradictions will still exist in China. The first…
— Mao Zedong
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The People's democratic dictatorship needs the leadership of the working class. For it is only the working class that is most far-sighted, most selfless and…
— Mao Zedong
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My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one…
— Nikola Tesla
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Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded.
— Unknown Author
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Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.
— Paulo Freire
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Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest…
— Bill Drayton
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British.…
— Nathaniel Philbrick
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Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost remnants…
— Jeremy Grantham
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While the revolution will be certainly televised, it strikes me that there is a strong possibility that the revolution will also be crowd-funded.
— Alan Moore
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Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it was top down,…
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
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