Revolution Quotes

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?

The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.

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.

Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another American century - President Barack Obama.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

After the war, once the bop revolution had taken hold, there were all kinds of young musicians, talented young musicians, who were ready for this fusion of classical and jazz.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

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

Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.

But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.

After the Revolution I was freed. I favoured the Constituent Assembly and am still for it.

It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.

The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.