Revolution Quotes

We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

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

Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.

Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

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

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.

Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.

The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

In Venezuela, with Chavez, is really an incredible revolution - a democratic revolution. To begin to put in place things that are going to have an impact on the people of Venezuela. The property owners and the folks who then controlled the media in Venezuela rebelled - worked, frankly, with folks here in the U.S. government - worked to oust him. But he came back with another revolution, and then Chavez began to take very seriously the media in his country. And we've had complaints about this ever since.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.

Reform is China's second revolution.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot.

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.