Revolutions Quotes

• Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • Revolutions

• Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

  

  Aristotle
  • Force
  • Fraud
  • Effected

• As the State formerly played a most important part in the revolutions that abolished the old economic systems, so it must again be the State that should abolish capitalism.

  

  Georges Sorel
  • State
  • Capitalism
  • Revolutions

• In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

  

  Aristotle
  • Occasions
  • Stake
  • Great Interest

• Social revolutions are never simple.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Simple
  • Never
  • Revolutions

• I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Concept
  • Capitalist

• Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

  

  Socrates
  • Wealth
  • Desires
  • Wars

• Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Deceived
  • Revolutions
  • Backward

• The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Best
  • Most
  • Revolutions

• Revolutions go not backward.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Go
  • Revolutions
  • Backward

• When paradigms change, the world itself changes with them … during revolutions scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before.

  

  Jeffery A. Cook Alabama
  • World
  • Scientists
  • Paradigms

• Martyrs are needed to create incidents. Incidents are needed to create revolutions. Revolutions are needed to create progress.

  

  Chester Himes
  • Progress
  • Incidents
  • Martyrs

• Let us not forget that revolutions are accomplished through people, although they be nameless. Materialism does not ignore the feeling, thinking, and acting man, but explains him.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • People
  • Revolutions
  • Materialism

• It must never be forgotten that nothing that is really great in this world has ever been achieved by coalitions, but that it has always been the success of a single victor. Coalition successes bear by the very nature of their origin the germ of future crumbling, in fact of the loss of what has already been achieved. Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Achieved
  • Victor
  • Enterprises

• Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

  

  Aristotle
  • Mind
  • State
  • Revolt

• Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Problem
  • Revolutions
  • Political Events

• Sometimes, with the scale of a film, it's like when I walked on the sets of "The Matrix," especially in "Reloaded," there was the city square, or in "Revolutions" with some of the machine world, you're like, "Wow, this is a big playground," which is fun to watch. But the acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • World
  • Experience
  • Fun

• I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • People
  • Earth
  • Learn

• Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

  

  Aristotle
  • Spring
  • Revolutions
  • Trifles

• There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Infinite
  • Final
  • Revolutions

• Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Europe
  • Empires
  • Revolutions

• People can live without a giant state. We've proven that already. But a giant state cannot live without dependent people. We feed the beast that puts us in shackles of our own creation. They are dependent on us. We think of revolutions as gunfire in the streets. But a soft and creeping tyranny can be beaten with a soft and creeping revolution. Think about it. Think about all the ways the totalitarian state is dependent on your personal actions. Think about what you do every day to help feed this beast and then stop doing that!

  

  Bill Whittle
  • Creation
  • Tyranny
  • Proven

• All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Revolutions
  • Treason

• Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Moving
  • Consider
  • Planets

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