Revolution Quotes

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

Revolution means turning the wheel.

The first big dramatic push in the Haitian Revolution was to overthrow the slave regime and we have to remember this was really the first place where there was a large scale emancipation experiment.

Revolution is the industry of young men.

Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?

[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution.

That becomes the revolution, to be idealistic enough that you think you can change the world, and what you find is you can't change anything but yourself.

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions

Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.

To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: “We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken.”

The road to revolution involves openness to the people, not imperviousness to them; it involves communion with the people, not mistrust.

Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.

America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.

The bases for historical knowledge are not empirical facts but written texts, even if these texts masquerade in the guise of wars or revolutions.

Bohemia is a commune in which the Revolution is over and everyone is a member of the aristocracy

An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority.

Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.

The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

The theory of the permanent revolution, in contradiction to the theory of socialism in one country, was recognized by the entire Bolshevik party during the period from 1917 to 1923.

The Orange Revolution in Ukraine is a good example of how people, who are robbed of their right to vote, can protest and put an end to dictatorship.

A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

I am still praying for revolution.

If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage.

The biggest effect of the personal computer revolution has been to allow millions and millions of people to experience computers themselves decades before they ever would have in the old paradigm.

The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

Thinking is the first step to a revolution in your life that is incredibly significant.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

The revolution of equality between men and women has began, there is no going back

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

The day is not distant when we must bear and adopt [the abolition of slavery], or worse will follow.

The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.

We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

Exported revolution is nonsense.

And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.

Anarchy! Revolution, Justice, Screaming For Solutions, Forcing Changes, Risk, and Danger, Making Noise and Making Pleas!.

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

Those who regarded the revolution, during Imam Khomeini's time, as a deviation, are now [wielding] the tools of terror and oppression