Revolution Quotes

• There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Revolution

• This is the Free Market Revolution: It is the idea that economic freedom can flourish only in an America that celebrates selfishness—the individual’s pursuit of his rational, long-term self-interest—as a virtue.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • America
  • Idea
  • Interest

• What (some) bands do is go, 'It's not important that I'm a girl, it's just important that I want to rock.' And that's cool. But that's more of an assimilationist thing. It's like they just want to be allowed to join the world as it is; whereas I'm more into revolution and radicalism and changing the whole structure. What I'm into is making the world different for me to live in.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• Compared to the way in which final causality has – in actual practice, if not in theory and rhetoric – maintained its grip on biological thinking, the Darwinian “revolution” is a trivial blip on the continued silent and unacknowledged hegemony of Aristotle.

  

  Edward Feser
  • Thinking
  • Practice
  • Aristotle

• In the late sixties, when revolution and upheaval were everywhere, feminists were ridiculed for focusing on housework.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Revolution

• We're living through the second Industrial Revolution.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • Revolution

• We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. … Christ’s cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!

  

  Catherine Doherty
  • Christ
  • Poor
  • Passionate

• I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
  • Revolution

• There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.

  

  Alfredo Stroessner
  • Revolution

• A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

  

  Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Period
  • Revolution

• The Copernican revolution was actually a contribution to the life of the church, the development of our view of ourselves in terms of the Universe, and therefore our view of God, et cetera. But, that took centuries, and struggles, and conflicts before that happened.

  

  George Coyne
  • Church
  • Universe
  • Struggle

• 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
  • World
  • Technology
  • Revolution

• I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.

  

  Raoul Vaneigem
  • Running
  • Revolution
  • Gentle

• The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant.

  

  Kim Jong-un
  • Cutting
  • Building
  • Economic

• Was revolution much more than one fast kick forward in the long process called evolution? We condemened the 'cost' of revolution; but was it higher than the cost over centuries in backward, underdeveloped communities, which still covered two-thirds of the earth and which still could not guarantee their populations daily bread?

  

  Ella Winter
  • Evolution
  • Communities
  • Populations

• The nationalism and the protectionism that was built into the Mexican Revolution in 1910 and that characterized the Mexican attitude to the United States for much of the 20th century were difficult to overcome. But that actually has occurred. And the cooperation, trust and confidence that have been built is not something that should be abandoned without great consideration for the potentially grave consequences to the United States.

  

  Alan Bersin
  • Attitude
  • Overcoming
  • Mexican

• I owe my own fluency with language to Brooklyn. Everyone talked about everything, from the Dodgers to the revolution.

  

  David Meltzer
  • Language
  • Everything
  • Talked

• It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???

  

  Adela Popescu
  • Help
  • Revolution
  • Acts

• Well I am always interested my people's right. But I will push myself to a revolution without arms.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Revolution
  • Arms
  • People's right

• One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Reality
  • Black

• Long live the Cuban revolution! Long live Comrade Fidel Castro!

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Long
  • Live
  • Revolution

• Milken, counting on nothing except his judgment that “junk” bonds weren’t really junk and that the entrepreneurs and businesses he was helping were good, led the revolution that would liberate capital from the turgid old boy network so that it could eventually find its way to Silicon Valley.

  

  Yaron Brook
  • Revolution
  • Businesses
  • Capital

• Works like 'Brave New World' and 'The Handmaiden's Tale' develop their atmosphere from a movement or a revolution, as if the world has ended and has come out to this other side. When I wrote 'The Bad Batch,' I thought that the world outside the gates that confine the 'bad' characters is simply our world today.

  

  Ana Lily Amirpour
  • Revolution
  • Works
  • Atmosphere

• By 1961, when I got my first copywriting job, 'my kind' were suddenly in demand. The creative revolution had begun. Advertising had turned into a business dominated by young, funny, Jewish copywriters and tough, sometimes violent, Greek and Italian art directors.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Art
  • Business
  • Job

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