Revolution Quotes

• I did some research into what was going on in terms of the sexual revolution that was happening in the '60s in the gay community and particularly in the drag world. Before the '60s, guys doing drag would dress like their mothers or iconic Hollywood actresses.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • World
  • Community
  • Gay

• Should one whole year from this July 4th pass while the crimes of this government are allowed to continue, we may have passed the point at which non-violent revolution becomes impossible.

  

  Adam Kokesh
  • Revolution
  • Crimes
  • Nonviolent

• 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

• It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

  

  Jose Bergamin
  • May
  • Revolution

• It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Broken

• Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Balance
  • Revolution
  • Creative

• Exported revolution is nonsense.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Revolution
  • Nonsense

• 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.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Die
  • Revolution
  • Page

• War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • War
  • Revolution

• The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

  

  Hugo Black
  • Friendship
  • Constitution
  • Tyranny

• We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

  

  William Easterly
  • Thinking
  • Democracy
  • Planning

• Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Revolution
  • Plans

• 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.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mind
  • Revolution

• I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites, and that the period of his revolution is about twelve years.

  

  William Hooper
  • Period
  • Revolution
  • Astronomical

• A kiss, she thinks, has to be entirely balanced -- it has to have a little conflict, a little dialectic, a little revolution.

  

  Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • Conflict
  • Kissing
  • Balanced

• The need of the hour is that your life should be revolutionised. The revolution should not be an individual one but a collective one. The change should be concerning your belief, your morals, your actions, your dealings, your decisions, and your efforts. Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.

  

  Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi
  • Change
  • Actions
  • Morals

• 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.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Question
  • Justice
  • Values

• The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.

  

  Jerry Yang
  • Revolution

• Political revolutions aim to change political institutions in ways that those institutions themselves prohibit. Their success therefore necessitates the partial relinquishment of one set of institutions in favor of another, and in the interim, society is not fully governed by institutions at all

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Political
  • Way
  • Aim

• If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Home
  • Revolution
  • Crowds

• The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people.

  

  Ernst Toller
  • Revolution
  • Heartbeat
  • Working People

• We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • Revolution

• No one revolution up to now has brought all that was expected of it by the masses. Hence the inevitability of a certain disillusionment, of a lowering of the activity of the vanguard, and consequently, of the growing importance of the rearguard. [Joseph] Stalin's faction has raised itself on the wave of reaction against the October revolution.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Reaction
  • Raised
  • Disillusionment

• Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Revolution
  • Democratic
  • Western

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