Revolution Quotes

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.

Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act!

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.

Revolution begins in putting on bright colors.

Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

Not all speed is movement.

Revolution starts in the mind. Question Everything!

The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

If you think like others, how can you be sure you're thinking at all?

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

There is only one real purpose of a real revolution: To move forward!

Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.

No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!

Revolution is an awakening, so is the spring! Spring is an awakening, so is the revolution!

Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

Kill the king but spare the man.

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

You and I love understanding American Revolution, but let's also understand the digital revolution, because that makes us more comfortable with our technology.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

It turns out one of my ancestors fought in the Continental Army, so I was inducted into the Sons of the American Revolution.

Today we are all Egyptians.

I fear we may live to see another revolution.

If you end internet neutrality and permit mergers of the big information technology corporations, that's a form of rent seeking. It's part of today's political revolution.

What a glorious morning this is!

Many who later lost faith in Fidel Castro can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch the Cuban revolution.

The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated.

We're all swimming in this digital revolution that we live in.

Since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable one by another, certainly a happy state of agreement to which I forone do not agree.

Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest

The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

It is curious - but you cannot make a revolution without honest men. ... Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.

The society was so different [in China] - it was a feudalistic society. It didn't come to a point of industrial revolution until twenty years ago.

[In] every revolution, there is a great divergence between what the revolutionaries expect and what the revolution actually accomplishes.

The Revolutionary Guard was created to help defend the revolution, but it soon was diverted from its initial path.

Today, as a result of a miraculous set of circumstances, Iran is going to get between $50 to $55 billion in oil revenue, which is unheard of in the history of the revolution.

I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can't believe I did that, it's like another person. It's the thought of it, it's just appalling to me.

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.

Today we are faced, I think, with the approach of what may be called the ultimate revolution, the final revolution, where man can act directly on the mind-body of his fellows.

The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.