Revolution Quotes

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.

The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced by the words of Jesus Christ.

We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.

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.

I promote revolution against the Capitalists and the Social Marxists.

The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity. It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution.

Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.

I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself.