Revolution Quotes

If it’s a revolution it can’t be predictable. And if it’s predictable it can’t be a revolution.

This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution.

Don't just survive while waiting for someone's revolution to clear your head.

She's got a big belt around her hips. It has a shiny buckle with PRADA on it, which is Italian for insecure.

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries.

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are the most to be dreaded.

There won't be any revolution in America ... the people are too clean. They spend all their time changing their shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

You think that social media is about hooking up online? For these kids [in the Tunisian Revolution], it was a military tool to defend unarmed people from murderers.

When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.

The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

Many Americans have never owned a book, and I'm not talking about because of the recent digital revolution. I'm talking about before there even was a digital revolution.

If the U.S. succeeds in destroying the revolution, my status will be like that of most Cubans: I'll be up a creek without a paddle. It will be devastating for people worldwide who believe in justice.

There is going to be enormous amounts of resistance to the adoption of bitcoin, but I really believe that it's about the most peaceful revolution that we can have in this world.

This country's going to have a revolution if something doesn't happen the haves and have - nots.

Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore no coats at all. We never did figure out who won that war.

The "terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.

I am a child of the digital revolution. So what I love about digital content is the quick turnover rate.

Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for -- the Revolution.

When you talk of revolution ... you never talk of the day after.

We had to save you because you're the mockingjay, Katniss," says Plutarch. "While you live, the revolution lives.

We believe that this time of transition will make for a more dynamic Revolution Church, and will help us focus and expand our scope and mission.

Progress' affects few. Only revolution can affect many.

This could be our revolution: to love what is plentiful as much as what's scarce.

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

We have reached the time when it is morally right to "shoot the bastards", but it is not yet practical to do so.

It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

I was born in revolution.

A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.

He wasn't someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, Communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all of its grisly horror.

Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

As long as Iran's aggressive policies continue, it's going to be bad for the region. Iran has to decide whether it wants a revolution or a nation-state.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

Nothing has ever remained of any revolution but what was ripe in the conscience of the masses.

Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

If people understood how the economic system works, there'd be a revolution in a minute.