Joseph Stalin Quotes
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
Harold Ford, Jr. -
Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.
W. Averell Harriman -
We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
Harold Wilson -
I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.
Ferdinand Marcos -
People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
Ha-Joon Chang
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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.
Karel Capek -
Mubarak's regime is dead and finished. People will not go back to this. This is a farce being propagated by the Muslim Brotherhood to say that this revolution was supported by the remnants of the Mubarak regime. They have gone against the whole Egyptian society, and this is why they were removed.
Naguib Sawiris -
Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
Tariq Ali -
Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.
Gary Shteyngart -
History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.
Gary Ross -
There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
E. O. Wilson
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For me, the struggle for women's human rights began the moment I was born in Tehran at the height of the Iranian Revolution, a time when the status of women was quickly deteriorating.
Nazanin Boniadi -
Of course, I grew up in Communist Romania, but I am happy to say that now our country is democratic, and prospering, since the revolution in 1989.
Nadia Comaneci -
We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.
Samuel P. Huntington -
A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.
Damian Marley -
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
Irving Babbitt -
No thieves, no traitors, no interventionists! This time the revolution is for real!
Fidel Castro
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The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable.
Kathryn Harrison -
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
Dr. Seuss -
I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.
Walter Murch -
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.
James Schuyler -
Some people think reality must be constantly depressing, but I think reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli -
Exported revolution is nonsense.
Joseph Stalin