Revolutions Quotes
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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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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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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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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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 are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.
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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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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 have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
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The powerful don't make revolutions.
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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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All revolutions devour their own children.
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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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Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.
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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 are always verbose.
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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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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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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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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?
