Revolution Quotes

You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

The children of the Reagan Revolution are ready to assume the mantle of leadership.

I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

We've been at this 56 years and ... we love saying that we are a country in revolution, trying to create socialism, and we form part of a single party called the Communist Party.

Revolutions just spread blood. Evolution - this is something that changes in the long term.

I thought the Made in America men's wear push was a big revolution in terms of smaller companies taking charge, but it seems like it's gotten out of control.

Revolutions have always started in cafés.

I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

I think a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership.

Three simple words can describe the nature of the social revolution that is talking place and what Negroes really want. They are the words "all," "now," and "here."

The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all.

An ant can't make a revolution, but a monkey can do; because it owns a fist! No real revolution is ever possible without fist.

Dwarfs can make revolutions easier than giants, because theirs will be unexpected!

Here is a good revolution in conscious and a good salvation formula for mankind: Get rid of religion, keep the God!

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

If you want to be a true revolutionist, you must first quit chewing gum, because revolution requires high seriousness!

The big honour of the big revolutions belongs to the high intelligence who design the revolution, not to the masses who support and participate the revolution!

There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision - global democratic revolution - into the hands of those who call themselves conservatives.

When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.

A curious mind armed with skill, experience, knowledge, and patterns can give birth to big brand revolution.

Welcome to the Customer Revolution, where you are no longer in charge. Your customer is.

Most young people are or will soon enough be workers. They can help to energize and radicalize the workers' movement. And what revolution has ever succeeded without youth?

The film industry needs to find a way to bring audiences to movie theaters. It's more of a technical trick than a revolution.

I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me.

The church generation in which Jesus returns will actively participate in this revolution. ... My premise: Many people alive today will see this revolution in their lifetime.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution was the embodiment of backwardness and barbarism.

The divers were the bravest of us. They gave their lives for the independence of our country and the success of our revolution.

As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.

It's impossible for 30 million black people to be violent against 170 million - we need a mental revolution, unity in coming together, and not physical.

I feel that we have some opportunity in North America to go back and say the American Revolution was the real thing.

We don't have to go around as the Protestant reformation did, or as the socialist revolution did, and execute each other as soon as we are successful - assuming we'll ever be successful.

I don't want to think any longer simply in terms of the Spanish Revolution or the Russian Revolution. It doesn't make any sense to talk [Peter] Makhno to an American.

A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.

Revolution is obstructed evolution.

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

A teacher says "I am sowing the seeds of revolution." At that time we cannot imagine how powerful the teacher is, but he certainly derives joy by fulfilling his duty.

If you have compassion for society, only then will the events of your life, sow seeds of revolution in it.

We led the industrial revolution, the White revolution, now its time for a cultural revolution.

I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.

There is not a revolution that succe Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed.

All revolutions in history have obstacles.

There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution.

There was not a single Islamic slogan [in Egypt]. It was secular men and women, and in fact, they were unified. Now they want to divide the revolution, and religion is a very strong weapon.

All revolutions in history have obstacles. There is not a revolution that succes.

The most powerful force changing our society is the information revolution.

The digital revolution is forever. They put importance on that option as well. With Amazon, you're getting the best of both worlds, with a whole new playing field.

Mercy, it's the revolution and I'm in my bathrobe!