Revolution Quotes

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

Every revolution eventually needs a new revolution.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

I pursue through my research on speed and on my study of the organisation of the revolution of the means of transportation.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

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

As a dimension of man, rebellion actually defines him.

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The revolution starts at the bottom.

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

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

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.

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

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.

People never move towards revolution; they are pushed towards it by intolerable injustices in the economic and social order under which they live.

Hymns of today that may be sung by people who know the thought of the age...are not afraid that any truth of science will destroy Christianity, or any revolution will overthrow the Kingdom of Heaven.

Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.

We can never expect to grow in the likeness of our Lord unless we follow His example and give more time to communion with the Father. A revival of real praying would produce a spiritual revolution.

You have no choice but to operate in a world shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options: adapt or die.

Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.

In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.

Know yourself and fit yourself to new fashions. For there is a new ruler among the gods.

I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.

Keep this straight in your head: we are not fighting an alien invasion - we're leading a revolution. And today the battle begins.

A Christian Anarchist does not depend on bullets or ballots to achieve his ideal; he achieves that ideal daily by the One Man Revolution with which he faces a decadent, confused and dying world.

The object is for everyone to do their own thing, but the thing is to make one's thing the Revolution.

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

The slogan of the revolution was dignity, social justice, and freedom. You cannot have dignity or social justice or freedom without women.

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.