Revolution Quotes
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The ‘total state’ of fascism is not a political alignment within the existing political and social setup, but that it is a revolution which, like all revolutions, works from without.
Peter Drucker
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America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.
Francis Parkman
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Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost remnants will still be available, but they will not be able to drive our growth, our population and, most critically, our food supply as before.
Jeremy Grantham
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Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
Georg Buchner
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Liberté, égalité, fraternité.
Liberty, equality, fraternity.
Watchword of French Revolution.
And bold and hard adventures t' undertake,
Leaving his country for his country's sake.
Charles Fitzgeoffrey
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War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.
Robert Wyatt
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The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.
Diego Rivera
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And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders
Ernest Mandel
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There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.
Alfredo Stroessner
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If you are asking me what the individual can do right now, in a political sense, I'd have to say he can't do all that much. Speaking for myself, I am more concerned with the transformation of the individual, which to me is much more important than the so-called political revolution.
William S. Burroughs
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The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these freedoms and rights, there is no motivation for people to work. Such a system cannot be sustained, especially in light of the technological revolution of the information era.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world.
Lucy Powell
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Well I am always interested my people's right. But I will push myself to a revolution without arms.
Bob Marley
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I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.
Rebecca Solnit
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Any proposals for the future, while they should use to the full the experience gathered in the past, should not be restricted by consideration of sectional interests established in the obtaining of that experience. Now, when the war is abolishing landmarks of every kind, is the opportunity for using experience in a clear field. A revolutionary moment in the world's history is a time for revolutions, not for patching.
William Beveridge
