Revolutions Quotes
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Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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It is quite clear that the German and Chinese revolutions in case of victory would have changed the face of Europe and Asia, and perhaps of the whole world.
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Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.
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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.
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All revolutions are treason until they are accomplished.
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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
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Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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It's a radical time for musicians, a really revolutionary time, and I believe revolutions like Napster are a lot more fun than cash, which by the way we don't have at major labels anyway, so we might as well get with it and get in the game.
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The powerful don't make revolutions.
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
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All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable
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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
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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.
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With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.
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John Bell devoted most of his efforts to conceptual and theoretical questions. Would he have liked that I also stress the importance of the technological revolutions that were, and will be, enabled by the conceptual revolutions? I cannot tell, but we know that he started his career in accelerator design, and that he always showed a profound respect for technological achievements. I like to think that he would have loved quantum-jumps-based atomic clocks, as well as entangled qubits.
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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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All revolutions devour their own children.
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It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones.
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It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure.
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Orgasms are nice, but revolutions are better.
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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
