Revolution Quotes
Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience.
I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.
You know how I always believe in the future. Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.
The dictatorship of the proletariat and the leadership of the Marxist-Leninist party are indispensable conditions for the triumph of the Socialist revolution and the building of Socialism.
Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.
The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.
India and China are improving by leaps and bounds and it will be their chess players who will lead the revolution of the XXI century.
Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment.
Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.
I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
...no movement for social change has ever succeeded without 'the militarism component'....Thinkers may prepare revolutions, but bandits must carry them out
A reading of the Declaration of Independence on the steps of a building is widely covered. The events that started the American Revolution were the meetings in homes, pubs, on street corners.
I think people look at revolution too much in terms of power. I think revolution has to be seen more anthropologically, in terms of transitions from one mode of life to another.
The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.
Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.
Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.
Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.
If there ever are great revolutions there, they will be caused by the presence of the blacks upon American soil.
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.
Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
I have made speeches urging women to adopt methods of rebellion such as have been adopted by men in every revolution.
China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.
My friend Michael Reagan has given us the blueprint for a new Reagan revolution- and he has given Ronald Reagan back to us again. Read it, learn it, live it, love it!
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.
It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York.
For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
