Best Revolutions Proverbs
282 Revolutions quotes by 218 unique authors
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When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.
— John Boyd Orr
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No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes…
— George Sand
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Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.
— Sheryl Sandberg
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Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.
— Marjane Satrapi
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And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
— Hu Shih
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Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.
— Gloria Steinem
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In other countries they have histories with revolutions and class movements. In America, people don't like to think of themselves like being in a lower…
— Matt Taibbi
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Revolutions are always verbose.
— Leon Trotsky
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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
— Albert Camus
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There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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She carried within herself a great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity between the movement of her own heart…
— Henry James
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One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.
— Christian Dior
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The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.
— James Joyce
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We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore…
— Thomas Jefferson
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But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.
— Terry Pratchett
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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions
— Victor Hugo
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Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.
— Abraham Lincoln
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... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other"…
— Edward Said
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Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate…
— Herbert Marcuse
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The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There…
— Machado de Assis
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Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests…
— Mark Helprin
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic…
— Boris Pasternak
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The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.
— Richelle Mead
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I laid my hand on top of theirs, and all I could think was, Is this how revolutions begin? Not with a proclamation or a…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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