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Revolution Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that…
- The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak…
- Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.
- The shot heard round the world.
- The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for…
- Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.
- Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.
- If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new…
- It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in…
- The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any…
- Revolutions go not backward.
- So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth?…
- Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.
- If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new…
More Revolution Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. — Irving Babbitt
- To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or… — Mikhail Bakunin
- My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is. — Iain Banks
- Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. — Henry Adams
- In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. — Bela Bartok
- The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams