Revolution Quotes

Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real.

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

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.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn't really have a plan on how to deal with it, and when it does - like the president sort of outlined when he first got here - we have a Congress who seem incapable of acting on it.

Believing we know what makes prosperity work, ignoring the nature of the actual prosperity all around, we change the rules within which the Internet revolution lives. These changes will end the revolution.

We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.

My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.

The seed of revolution is repression.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

A revolution is impossible without a revolutionary situation; furthermore, not every revolutionary situation leads to revolution.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

If we don't make earnest moves toward real solutions, then each day we move one day closer to revolution and anarchy in this country. This is the sad, and yet potentially joyous, state of America.

The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.

The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.

For me, 'revolution' simply means radical change.