Revolution Quotes

The nature of revolutions is that they destroy the perfect and enable the impossible.

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

Usually, in any revolution people are focused on who wants to have the most power. But the most important thing is the laws that are written during that time.

A good piece of art should make a revolution inside you.

Cooking is revolution and creation.

To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.

I think when you look back at the different eras in jazz, what leads from one to another is never a melodic revolution, but a rhythmic revolution.

Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.

The Darwinian revolution is about essence. The Darwinian revolution is about who we are, it's what we're made of, it's what our life means insofar as science can answer that question.

The revolution starts now.

I am very gratified to have lived to see a revolution in the field of work/life: Everyone - men and women, employees and employers - now has this issue top of mind.

While you live, the revolution lives

The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution.

I do think the Cubans have to change some of the political structures there and allow critical voices, for their own sakes, because unless there is accountability the revolution will totally atrophy.

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.

The revolt against any oppression usually goes to an opposite extreme for a time; and that is right and necessary.

And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.

Revolution is not something outside of us, but inside us, begging for our engagement every single day.

A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.

The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the Revolution of 1688 is this that this was our last Revolution.

You'll know the green revolution has been won when the word 'green' disappears.

A little revolution is a good thing.

We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.

One war, such as that of our Revolution, is enough for one life.

Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.

A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.

For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, ever started a revolution playing by the rules

I don't believe that clothes can start a revolution, but I do believe that fashion is often a manifestation of a sociological or political climate.

If not for John Adams leading a revolution against Great Britain...This would be the BAFTAs.

The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.

We teach mental literacy and radiant thinking; a revolution in human thought.

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

I have always loved the Mao cap, though I hate violent revolution.

Independence in the end is the fruit of injustice.

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.

I think revolution happens when you distrust anything in its current state, including yourself.

North Korea is not an exception. Even there, where you think it would be completely sober, they have the myth of their revolution being connected to the volcano.

It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same kind of geniuses who pulled off the American Revolution.

We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution.

You don't overturn a previous court's decisions lightly and I think most Americans are somewhere in the middle on abortion and there's not going to be a revolution here at all.

When hopes of reform are dashed, people will rise up and seek revolution.

All I’m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence.

The thing is, even after the revolution, if people don't have any trust in themselves, they'll get new problems.

The revolution will come from the people and the willingness to work towards something better, to fight for a better living.