Best Revolutions Quotations
282 Revolutions quotes by 218 unique authors
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History is a relay of revolutions.
— Saul Alinsky
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Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff…
— Banksy
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No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of wars and revolutions, and the national elements in our culture, even when they were…
— Christopher Dawson
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Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of mans experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be the heirs of…
— Thomas Sankara
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Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount…
— Lee Harvey Oswald
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Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
— Millard Fillmore
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All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning
— Dmitri Volkogonov
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It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of…
— Vilfredo Pareto
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It is easy to prescribe improvement for others; it is easy to organize something, to institutionalize this or that, to pass laws, multiply bureaucratic agencies,…
— Albert J. Nock
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The Arabs were Germany's natural friends...They were therefore prepared to cooperate with Germany with all their hearts and stood ready to participate in a war,…
— Haj Amin al-Husseini
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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
— Aristotle
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All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They take place when…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science…
— Stanley Schmidt
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All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.
— Sonia Johnson
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Unjust social orders do no fall merely by appeals to the consciences of the oppressor, though such appeals may be an important element; history teaches…
— Timothy B. Tyson
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Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.
— Chester Himes
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A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold…
— John Milton
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I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
— Gordon Getty
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The most successful revolutions aren't those that are celebrated with parades and banners, drums and trumpets, cannons and fireworks. The really successful revolutions are those…
— Joseph Sobran
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The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree…
— Carl Jung
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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
— John Mortimer
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The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over before a lot…
— Unknown Author
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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for…
— Mark Twain
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It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always…
— Adolf Hitler
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