Revolution Quotes

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

The revolution of ages may bring round the same calamities; but ages may revolve without producing a Tacitus to describe them.

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.

Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered.

The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

We have a president who apparently loves instability and revolution, and that is the antithesis of those two words, Social Security.

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolution that is positive.

I can't imagine Revolution being quiet, unassuming, or bashful

Pick a movement, pick a revolution and join it.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and we've been in wars ever since. We're not a pacific people.

I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses.

It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.

Courtesy is the bedrock of social interchange. No matter what you're doing, even if you're fomenting revolution, you can still be courteous.

For instance, our country wanted to effect a revolution, and did effect it, and now we are building a new classless society.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.

It is therefore not true that the mere existence of the Soviet Union is capable of assuring the victory of the revolution in other countries.

I worry about kids today - because of the sexual revolution, they're going to grow up and never know what "dirty" means.

After a few days, I mused, I would have no trouble. Whoever heard of a revolution of fat men?

Art and love survive war, revolution and death. Things continue. What we put into the earth while we are alive continues beyond us.

Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded.

Every revolution has its counter-revolution.

Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

One makes whatever revolution one can, each in their own way.

thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.

The book, I think, like the map before it, like the clock, created or help create a revolution in the human mind in the way our habits of mind and ultimately the way we use our brains.

The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over!

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

Faced by the actual practice of freedom, the French and American revolutions would be forced to stand by their words.

An army of the people is invincible!

So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants.

It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.