Revolutions Quotes

282 quotes by 223 authors

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. — Hannah Arendt
Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions. — Aristotle
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character… — Bernard Baruch
And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they… — Madeleine Albright
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. — Edmund Burke
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State. — Albert Camus
Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water? — Nicolas Chamfort
How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand, slate, and clay: ... that… — Johann Gottfried Herder
It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty… — George Julius Poulett Scrope
War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring… — Judith Hand
Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing. — Georges Sorel
A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this by means of… — Leonardo da Vinci
We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy. — Gary Hamel
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as… — Charles Caleb Colton
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder. — George Bernard Shaw
It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones. — Abraham Lincoln
Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles. — Aristotle
Society is just a structure with no soul. The soul is of the individual. One individual outweighs all societies. And, one individual's revolution outweighs all… — Rajneesh
Revolutions never go backwards. — Wendell Phillips

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