Revolutions Quotes
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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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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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Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.
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The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.
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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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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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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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Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.
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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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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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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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The powerful don't make revolutions.
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Revolutions are always verbose.
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All revolutions devour their own children.
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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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Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
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Orgasms are nice, but revolutions are better.
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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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If debates about beauty in nineteenth-century France were fierce, that was because beauty was seen to matter. This was a world of political revolutions, of social reformism, of belief in progress and human perfectibility. Why was it that beauty mattered so much in such a world?
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Once again, he who ignores the problems of revolutionary strategy would do better not to talk about revolutions at all.
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Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.
