Revolution Quotes
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And lastly, the political revolutions from 1911 to the present time have done more to bring about tremendous social changes everywhere than even the economic and industrial changes and the new schools.
Hu Shih -
This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement...
Hamid Dabashi
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This was the first Memorial Day [Monday, May 1st, 1865]. African Americans invented Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina. What you have there is Black Americans recently freed from slavery announcing to the world with their flowers, their feet, and their songs what the war had been about. What they basically were creating was the Independence Day of a Second American Revolution.
David W. Blight -
I was born in revolution.
Mary Harris Jones -
Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom.
Millard Fillmore -
Here, the revolution was prepared. Here it was achieved. Here all the great events were fostered.
Georges Couthon -
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
Henrik Ibsen
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Revolution is like a love story. When you are in love, you become a much better person. And when you are in revolution, you become a much better person.
Alaa Al Aswany -
Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
Ernest Mandel -
A man doesn't have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.
Karen Hancock -
I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.
John Lennon The Beatles -
If you're not smart enough to know what Fidel meant during the Cuban revolution, that - when they were on the Granma - Fidel was already a rock star in Cuba, and how important that was to the indigenous population, then you're not paying attention.
Steven Soderbergh -
When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Vladimir Lenin
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The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.
Jerry Yang -
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
Hu Shih -
Could it be argued that if the Chinese revolution seems to be a response to the needs of rural society, whereas the Russian is an urbanized phenomenon, this difference corresponds to that which exists between the users of two different forms of written communication, the one archaic, the other alphabetic?
Eric A. Havelock -
If the crowd disperses, goes home, does not reassemble, we say the revolution is over.
Ryszard Kapuscinski -
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 -
We're living through a historic revolution in biology.
Eric Lander
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A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.
Seth Godin -
The US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped.
Bill Bonner -
Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him purely and simply an abuse. A great social revolution, in which rank will be overturned, in which all authority in this world will be humiliated, was his dream .
Ernest Renan -
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