Revolution Quotes

• Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Great
  • Revolution

• Gary Kildall was one of the original pioneers of the PC revolution. He was a very creative computer scientist who did excellent work. Although we were competitors, I always had tremendous respect for his contributions to the PC industry. His untimely death was very unfortunate and he and his work will be missed.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Death
  • Respect

• How could liberty ever have established itself amongst us? Apart from several tragic scenes, the revolution has been nothing but a web of farcical scenes… But it is in the nation’s senate that the most grotesque parades have taken place.

  

  Jean-Paul Marat
  • Taken
  • Revolution

• The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Revolution
  • Enlightenment

• 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
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Personality
  • October
  • Influential

• We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Revolution
  • Originals
  • Enterprising

• We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

  

  Scott Cook
  • Revolution
  • Internet

• The industrial revolution fueled all of humanity, everything we do has been exploding ever since. It's been the biggest most impacting thing, not only for human beings in the last 250 million years, but also the planet, which caused the ice age, which buried the forest. It's this circle because of the industrial revolution, it's neither good or bad, it enabled all of modernization, extended our life, it changed everything. It's the most impactful thing that happened to the planet and the people.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.

  

  Kelly Lynch
  • Time
  • Amazing
  • Revolution

• It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.

  

  Archie Shepp
  • Time
  • Political
  • Interesting

• Can and must! The proclamation of this new conception of [Joseph Stalin] is closed by the same words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution." In the course of a single year Stalin ascribed to [Vladimir] Lenin two directly opposed conceptions of the fundamental question of socialism. The first version represents the real tradition of the party; the second took shape in Stalin's mind only after the death of Lenin, in the course of the struggle against "Trotskyism".

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Question
  • Socialism
  • Conceptions

• The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • History
  • Nature
  • Car

• Nothing counts but pressure, pressure, more pressure, and still more pressure through broad organized aggressive mass action.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Action
  • Revolution
  • Pressure

• I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Revolution
  • Popular

• President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Different
  • Strong
  • Same

• To you, is it movement, or is it action?Is it contact or just reaction?And you, revolution, just resistance?Is it living, or just existence? - The Enemy Within (Part I of 'Fear') (1984)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Enemy

• Insurrection, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Bad
  • Failure
  • Revolution

• 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
  • Water
  • Revolution
  • Jump

• I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.

  

  Berkeley Breathed
  • Fans
  • Digital
  • Mail

• Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit.

  

  Frederick Pollock
  • Political
  • Revolution

• The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Revolution

• For the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the efforts of one country are sufficient - for this we have the testimony of the history of our revolution. For the definitive victory of Socialism, for the organization of Socialist production, the efforts of one country, especially of a peasant country like Russia, are insufficient - for that are required the efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • History
  • Victory
  • Socialism

• The revolution has been dubbed The Orange Revolution, orange being the campaign color of Viktor Yushchenko. The demonstrators say they are tired of living under a corrupt government.

  

  Bob Schaffer
  • Color
  • Revolution
  • Tired

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