Revolution Quotes

We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

But as we shall see, Roosevelt, through a combination of events and influences, fell deeper and deeper into the toils of various revolutionary operators, not because he was interested in revolution but because he was interested in votes.

Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.

The period that I could consider the most important in my literary work came about beginning with the Revolution, and in a certain way, developed as a consequence of the Revolution. But it was also a result of the counterrevolutionary coup of November 1975.

No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!

Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

The revolution is really easy to do nowadays.

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.

Israel no longer has allies in Egypt and in Tunisia, we are saying to the Zionist enemies that times have changed and that the time of the Arab Spring, the time of the revolution, of dignity and of pride has arrived.

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

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

It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

In March of 1933 we witnessed a revolution in manner, in mores, in the definition of government. What before had been black or white sprang alive with color.

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course.