Revolution Quotes
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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.
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The Italian Revolution was fought first of all to obtain the liberty and unity of the nation, and then, with that achieved, to join the freest and most advanced nations in inaugurating a new era of peace, justice, and joint cooperation in the work of civilization.
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You cannot just have a socialist revolution in Norwood and nowhere else.
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Exported revolution is nonsense.
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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.
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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.
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It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
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I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.
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War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.
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According to Colonel Ely Garrison, in his autobiography and according to the United States Naval Secret Service Report on Paul Warburg, the Russian Revolution had been financed by the Rothschilds and Warburgs, with a member of the Warburg family carrying the actual funds used by Lenin and Trotsky in Stockholm in 1918.
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Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.
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Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur.
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Although scientific revolutions in how we see the world do occur, the bulk of our scientific understanding comes from the cumulative impact of numerous incremental studies that together paint an increasingly coherent picture of how nature works.
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We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.
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Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
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We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
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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.
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Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind and when the same thought occurs in another man, it is the key to that era.
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“May I ask how your revolution's going? Revolutions always go more smoothly around a campfire in the jungle than they do in real life.
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A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.
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Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's experience with sexuality is that exploitation and degradation produce grateful complicity in exchange for survival. They produce self-loathing to the point of extinction of self, and it is respect for self that makes resistance conceivable.
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I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.
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Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.
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I was there in the '60s and '70s, and there was a lot of bull thrown around about the 'revolution' and a lot of drug taking and sex happening. Sure people showed up at demonstrations in large numbers, but did that end the war?
