Revolutions Quotes
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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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Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.
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There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.
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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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The more revolutions occur, the less things change.
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It will be a new page in the industry of filmmaking and art in general. I think all revolutions, even if they don't achieve all of their goals, achieve freedom of expression. We're like a little chick. We just broke the egg. We didn't come out yet but it's a matter of time.
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A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.
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Moral revolutions are typically seen retrospectively. Prospectively, the revolutionaries tend to look like crazy people, and sometimes they are.
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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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The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.
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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
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The revolutions of the Arab Spring happened because people realized they were the power.
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History is a relay of revolutions.
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Revolutions are not made with rosewater.
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The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation.
