Revolution Quotes

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.

If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.

You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.

[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution."

There'll never be any revolution. Humanity has bartered it for Coca-Cola and cable television.

To dare: that is the whole secret of revolutions.

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.

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

We are on the cusp of a marketing revolution. And it's being led by YOU.

The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.

I remain faithful to the ideals of Imam Khomeini and the Islamic Revolution of 1357.

I was born in revolution.

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal, When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal.

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.

Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness.

Some may find them merely diverting melodies. Others may find them incitements to Red revolution. And who will say if either or both is wrong? Not I.

The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.

...revolutions are not won by enlisting the masses. Revolution is a science for the few who are competent to practice it. It depends on correct organisation and above all, on communications.

English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.

Choosing succulence is a deliberate act of personal revolution. It means waking up! Embracing your true self, studying your patterns, and letting out your most alive self. We all have one.

What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy

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.

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.

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.

Debt and revolution are inseparable as cause and effect.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

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

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

Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'

When it's time for the revolution, I'm a click, click, click.

Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away.

Beautiful people don't need coats. They've got their auras to keep them warm.

Happiness was useless to me. It was heartache that filled my purse. What happy man has need of Shakespeare?

The philosophy that prepares a revolution and the sentiment that underpins the philosophy have, in every case the two pillars of nihilism and mysticism.

Even in the middle of barking dogs, you can hear the footsteps of a big revolution!

The Internet revolution is going to be like all the other revolutions we have seen in history. It's going to be over before a lot of us even know it started.

The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.

The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century.

The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight.

Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.

The quintessential revolution is that of spirit. Without this, the forces which produce the inequalities of the old order will continue to operate.

A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.

We are not the ones who create revolutions. It is the imperialist system and its allies, internal allies, the ones who create revolution.

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

This is where the Continental Congress met over two hundred years ago during the American Revolution. So, Lancaster was actually the capital of our nation for one day in 1977.

There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world.

I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.