Revolution Quotes
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The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.
Ezra Taft Benson
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It is yet to be decided whether the Revolution must ultimately be considered as a blessing or a curse: a blessing or a curse, not to the present age alone, for with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved.
George Washington
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Insurrection, n. An unsuccessful revolution. Disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
Ambrose Bierce
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More votes equals a loss...revolution!
Donald Trump
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The period of 15 years from the last time we were in Scarborough, in 1960, to the middle of the 1970s, will embrace a period of technical change, particularly in industrial methods, greater than the whole of the industrial revolution of the last 250 years.
Harold Wilson
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The principal challenge of the next phase of the Negro revolution is to make certain that equality of results will now follow. If we do not, there will be no social peace in the United States for generations.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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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
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In the Egyptian and Eastern cosmogonies, and in the Greek version of them, no very definite meaning can, in general, be attached to the term 'destruction of the world,' for sometimes it would seem almost to imply the annihilation of our planetary system, and at others a mere revolution of the surface of the earth.
Charles Lyell
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The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.
Pankaj Mishra
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A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists.
Randall Jarrell
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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
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Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.
George Lincoln Rockwell
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Addressing issues, including controversial ones, as well as domestic issues of the former Soviet Republics through the so-called coloured revolutions, through coups and unconstitutional means of toppling the current government. That is absolutely unacceptable.
Vladimir Putin
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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Franz Kafka
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My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
Joseph Stalin
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I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.
Jaden Smith
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We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
Scott Cook
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Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.
Sean Penn
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I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.
Kelly Lynch
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We must be alarmingly enterprising, and we must be startlingly original, and do new and striking things which constitute a revolution.
William Randolph Hearst
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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
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Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes and socks.
Andrew Solomon
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If you're a serious publisher, you publish books because they work. In other words, they are written well; the reader identifies with the characters. The context seems to be real whether he's writing about the French Revolution or the failure of Lehman Brothers.
Peter Mayer