Revolution Quotes
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From an early period, I had the happiness to rank among the foremost in the American Revolution. In the affection and confidence of the people, I am proud to say, I have a great share.
Marquis de Lafayette -
I've got a lot of shows under my belt that are ancient history solely because they were on the air before this video revolution came along and ensured that canceled shows could continue to have a bit of a presence.
Jim Beaver
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Evolution has not been proven, ... There are a growing number of scientists who are skeptical about Darwinism.
Larry Taylor Canned Heat -
The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.
Pankaj Mishra -
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.
Mao Zedong -
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Quincy Adams -
Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction.
Marshall McLuhan -
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
I. F. Stone
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In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.
Christian Louboutin -
My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My second period is one of disappointment. This change was the result of close observation on the spot.
Chiang Kai-shek -
The next revolution, the next trend is to be an intelligence-intensive company. That has more value to society than a labor-intensive company.
Barry Lam -
There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.
Abbie Hoffman -
Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.
Alison Gopnik -
The traditional stand adopted by the Cuban Revolution, which was always opposed to any action that could jeopardize the life of civilians, is well known.
Fidel Castro
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Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.
A. Philip Randolph -
The last time the Diaz-Balarts were removed from power, it took a revolution, and we ended up with Fidel Castro.
Joe Garcia -
The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march
Bhagat Singh -
It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.
Randall Terry -
Change has no constituency—and a perceived revolution has even less.
Jack Welch -
Yo, I heard it's said the revolution won't be televised But in the land of milk and honey there's a date you gotta sell it by Otherwise it just expires and spoils and these folks jump out the pot when the water too hot
Talib Kweli Black Star
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So people are talking about revolution. What a revolution it would be to have a woman president.
Madeleine Albright -
Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
Emily Greene Balch -
We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.
Christiane Amanpour -
It sounds ghoulish, but it would have been fascinating to be in Paris in 1789 and watch the revolution begin. I can't even imagine what the energy must have been like that year with all of that change crackling in the air.
Deanna Raybourn