Revolution Quotes

• It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Writing
  • Revolution
  • Pleasant

• A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Learn
  • Revolution
  • Teach

• Well, I am actually a daughter of the American Revolution

  

  Katie Pavlich
  • Revolution
  • Actually
  • Daughters

• In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.

  

  Walter Wink
  • People
  • Peace
  • Humanity

• There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

  

  Charles A. Reich
  • Past
  • Culture
  • Individual

• We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.

  

  Robert Webb
  • American
  • Challenged
  • Monarchy

• One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Independent
  • Revolution

• Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

  

  Raymond Aron
  • Language
  • Revolution
  • Skepticism

• The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

  

  Raymond Aron
  • Intellectual
  • Satisfied
  • Certainty

• I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.

  

  Mohammed Morsi
  • Peaceful
  • Following
  • Egyptian

• There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • Light
  • Shining
  • Branches

• Revolution may not be pro-Western or democratic.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Revolution
  • Democratic
  • Western

• In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Create
  • Image
  • Relations

• A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Revolution
  • Succeed
  • Destruction

• We ought to be doing much more in North America. We are on the cusp of an energy revolution. And we do need to be doing more at home. The biggest national security threats facing the United States right now are not in the Middle East. They are domestic.

  

  Richard N. Haass
  • Revolution
  • Security

• The defense of the revolution is the defense of the people.

  

  Sukarno
  • People
  • Revolution
  • Defense

• Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Revolution
  • Police
  • Revolt

• I believe we can create a truly humane, sustainable, and health food production system without killing any animals. I imagine a revolution in veganic agriculture in which small farmers grow a variety of vegetables, fruits, grains, and legumes, all fertilized with vegetable sources.

  

  Gene Baur
  • Believe
  • Imagine
  • Farmers

• The classics of the ancient world are everywhere in the literature of the Revolution, but thet are everywhere illustrative, not determinative, of thought.

  

  Bernard Bailyn
  • Literature
  • Revolution

• Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.

  

  Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
  • Answers
  • Deserve
  • Absurd

• If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Music
  • Love
  • Art

• Mercy, it's the revolution and I'm in my bathrobe!

  

  Nicole Hollander
  • Revolution
  • Mercy

• Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities will be coordinated and grouped under a National Department of Education and its state and local branches. The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic, and other features of bourgeois ideology.

  

  William Z. Foster
  • School
  • College
  • Religious

• Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Revolution
  • Follows
  • Alphabet

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