Henry Rollins Quotes
Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.
Quotes to Explore
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
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Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.
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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.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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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.
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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.
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When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
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There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
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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.
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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.
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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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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.
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Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
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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.
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The Russian revolution was to an unprecedented degree the cause of the proletariat of the whole world becoming more revolutionary.
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Our Revolution emerged where it was least expected by the empire, in a hemisphere where it was used to acting like an all-powerful master.
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The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought.
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I'm just delighted that this woman I love can be a mum again.
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When we feed our faith, we starve our doubts.
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Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward.
