Revolution Quotes

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

What's the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly.

They [Democrats in Congress] believe in communism. They believe and have called for a revolution. You're going to have to shoot them in the head. But warning, they may shoot you.

Women are in the midst of an unfinished revolution.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.

It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.

Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as for their own."

I think we have to understand that the nation-state became powerful in the wake of the French Revolution, whereas the nation-state has become powerless in light of globalization.

People die when curiosity goes.People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we're made of? 830

... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.

A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

Avant-gardism is an addiction that can be appeased only by a revolution in permanence.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.

America is ripe for a service revolution.

The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

I think a revolution transitioning from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy - somebody's going to be the 21st-century clean-energy superpower.

We don't have a revolution, and we don't have the time for evolution, where does it come from? It must come from some kind of shared experience that everybody agrees with.

The industrial revolution took the father out of the home and put the kids in school. And then everyone had their own little scene.

While I had done the movies through Revolution Studios, we own the sitcom. It was a situation where, once the team was assembled, I knew we could create something really, really good.

If history's any judge, you might have democratic leanings in a revolution but that doesn't necessarily mean that the revolution is going to end up with democratic results.

If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that.

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

Change has no constituency and a perceived revolution has even less.

Revolutions are not made by fate but by men.

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

... in the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things--love, fashion shows, and revolution.

Lucian [of Samosata; 120-190 CE] was trying to make his audience laugh, rather than start a revolution

Everybody needs to read a lot of revolutionary stuff, because the revolution is a big part of our will to live.

Vaclav Havel is the figure that represents the Velvet Revolution and the reunification of Europe. He will be sorely missed.

I'm kind of like Che Guevera. I lead the revolution, but at some point I turn it over to someone else.

War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

I was very strenuous for retaining and insisting on it [law of nature], as a resource to which we might be driven by Parliament much sooner than we were aware.

During the whole time I sat with him in Congress, I never heard him utter three sentences together.

It is an observation of one of the profoundest inquirers into human affairs that a revolution of government is the strongest proof that can be given by a people of their virtue and good sense.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

Anybody can make a movie, if you have the will. The digital revolution has made it very inexpensive to make a film. Anybody who wants to can do it.

For the United States, the ACA is a revolution, an enormous set of changes that many see as a huge step forward and many others see as a wrong turn.

The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.

Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons.

A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world.

I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution.