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The disorder, uncertainty, and strife of a revolution make citizens yearn for stable authority, or they turn to radicalism.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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• The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Children
  • Always
  • Revolution

• I barely need to reiterate what you already know: the close links that exist between our people and the people of Venezuela and Hugo Chavez, the promoter of the Bolivarian Revolution and the United Socialist Party he founded.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Party
  • Revolution

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

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Revolution
  • Socialism
  • Our

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• 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
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• 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
  • Time
  • Change
  • Revolution

• Latinos finally have a genre of music that represents them, and they're supporting reggaeton in such huge numbers that people can't help but notice there's a revolution going on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Music
  • Help

• 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
  • Time
  • American
  • Revolution

• I'm not in the business of bayoneting the wounded. I feel the blockchain revolution is kind of my victory. I don't care whether I win it, someone else wins it.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Business
  • Revolution
  • Win

• I'm open about having bipolar disorder. I'm open about being of mixed race. I'm open about being bisexual, and I have this wantingness to talk about it, and for me, it's about more than being a role model for any specific community.

  

  Halsey
  • Community
  • Race
  • Bisexual

• The Arab Spring is kind of a perfect model for how people are going to use technology to act collectively in their own interest in the future. There's never been a revolution that was coordinated by social media to the degree that the Arab Spring was.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • Future
  • Perfect

• 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.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Future
  • Change
  • Present

• Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Human
  • Revolution

• Following the sexual revolution of the Sixties, dating has become a form of Russian roulette. Some girls have traditional religious values and mean to remain virgins until marriage. Others are leery of AIDS, unsure of what they want, but can be convinced. For others, anything goes: they’ll jump into bed on the first date. What’s a guy to do?

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Guy
  • Marriage
  • Religious

• Go by reverently, and read with sober careHow a great people, riding with defiant shoutsThe centaur of Revolution,Spurred and whipped to frenzy,Shook with terror, seeing the mist of the seaOver the precipice they were nearing,And fell from his back in precipitate aweTo celebrate the Feast of the Supreme Being.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • People
  • Great
  • Revolution

• I want to tell Carter and Begin that when the Arabs set off their volcano there will be only Arabs in this part of the world… Our people will continue to fuel the torch of the revolution with rivers of blood until the whole of the occupied homeland is liberated, the whole of the homeland is liberated, not just a part of it.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • People
  • World
  • Revolution

• Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Humanity
  • Revolution
  • Ignorance

• A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Revolution
  • Movement

• I believe his arrest and detention by the international criminal tribunal is unconstitutional, and goes against Yugoslav and international law. They have no right to try him.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Believe
  • Law

• We need to fight for women's rights, but I don't want to separate women from men. We're separated already because we're not made the same, and it's the difference that creates this energy in creation and love.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Men
  • Women
  • Energy

• Maybe I've just been incredibly fortunate, but there's a level of dedication, devotion, intensity and seriousness around me every day.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Dedication

• Toby scored some huge goals for us as a freshman. I'm really looking for Toby to take some big steps this season.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Goals
  • Huge
  • Freshman

• The disorder, uncertainty, and strife of a revolution make citizens yearn for stable authority, or they turn to radicalism.

  

  Simon Sebag Montefiore
  • Revolution
  • Disorder
  • Radicalism