Revolution Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“Science, industry and military technology intertwined only with the advent of the capitalist system and the Industrial Revolution. Once this relationship was established, however,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“But in the military sphere, just as in science, economics, art, or culture, change is not evenly distributed across space and time. Sometimes innovations…

— Max Boot

“For virtually all the socialist revolutions of the twentieth century, it was not a crisis of the capitalist system, but imperialist war that pushed…

— S.A. Smith

“it was the wars of the twentieth century that wiped away the past to create the illusion that capitalism had been structurally transformed.”

— Thomas Piketty

“Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.”

— Stephen Jay Gould

“They became actual revolutions instead of mere discussions, complaints and rioting, only after revolutionists had beaten, or won over, the armed forces of the…

— Crane Brinton

“Like nineteenth-century European powers, each company does little to impinge on the other’s sphere of influence, competing only on the fringes of empire.”

— Franklin Foer

“The trouble was, innovation never resulted in victory over the long term. It was too easy for the enemy to imitate and improve on…

— Orson Scott Card

“Most existing nations evolved only after the Industrial Revolution.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Revolution is what you get when technology and culture collide.”

— Jason Merkoski

“Revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new technologies—it happens when society adopts new behaviors.”

— Clay Shirky

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

— Nathan Myhrvold