Revolution Quotes

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.

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

Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

Revolutions never go backwards.

The Sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.

Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them.

Economically considered, war and revolution are always bad business.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.

In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived. And a revolution has some sense of a long time frame, millions of years that we've been evolving on this planet.

The way we look at nineteenth-century English social realism and appreciate the working classes of the emerging industrial revolution.

I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.

The revolution starts at the bottom.

We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution. (On Muammar Qaddafi of Libya)

Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, and a lot of countries benefited, but by no means everyone.

Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks on their backs tramping around the back country.

The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity

You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped outside the norm receded.

We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

The revolution has been dubbed “The Orange Revolution,” orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government...

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies.

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 them in hand.

The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

There can be conscious revolution.

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

We must realize that today's establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.

We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.

Liberté, égalité, fraternité. Liberty, equality, fraternity. Watchword of French Revolution. And bold and hard adventures t' undertake, Leaving his country for his country's sake.

Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society.