Revolution Quotes

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.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The French revolution taught us the rights of man.

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.

One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity.

There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

There is a revolution happening, and within two years I think that Wi-Fi and Netflix will be built into all the televisions.

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable.

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

In the final analysis, the whole cause of world revolution hinges on the revolutionary struggles of the Asian, African and Latin American people who make up the overwhelming majority of the world's population.