Absence Quote by David McCullough

If one looks at all closely at the middle of our own century, the events that occupy us, our customs, our achievements and even…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

“This was one of the most revealing scenes of the whole revolution – one of those rare episodes when the hidden relations of power…

— Orlando Figes

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…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the…

— Lydia M. Child

It's the occasion that makes the revolution.

— Machado de Assis

One of the things we know now that we didn't know then, is that revolutions are very painful to a lot of people. And…

— Howard Rheingold

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

— Anonymous

I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was…

— David Bowie

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…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

It's such an extraordinary time to be alive that you just don't want to miss it. I mean, it's a really neat historical period.

— Juan Enriquez

There is a constant revolution happening, people look at things done in the past and try to better them.

— KK

History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been…

— John Green