Revolution Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Revolution is the opium of the intellectuals.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man.

Only when man is willing to change himself, there can be a true revolution.

Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.

I see a sequence of seven main phases: creation,revolution or exodus (Israel in Egypt), law, wisdom, prophecy, gospel, and apocalypse.

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.

Film then does not promote socialist revolution in any consistent way.

The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.

To bring about a fundamental, radical revolution, we must begin with ourselves.

QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.

Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.

I always tell people that a revolution is not an event, it's a process. It is a struggle. And it doesn't usually go smoothly.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.

Revolutions are not made for export.

Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.

We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them.

If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped itself of all superstitions concerning the past.

In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

The translucent revolution is not only about more and more people having awakening, it's also about the way that awakening is embodied â€" and that's much more revolutionary, actually.

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

As far as world war goes, there are really only two possibilities: either war provokes revolution, or revolution averts war.

We're in the midst of an evolution, not a revolution.

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.