Revolution Quotes

• The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • World
  • Different
  • Important

• The rebels did more in one night than my whole army would have done in one month.

  

  William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe
  • Done
  • American
  • Army

• The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Powerful
  • Force
  • Crisis

• The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.

  

  Benjamin Rush
  • Revolution
  • American War

• This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa Dorfman and actually operate the camera. Well one of the cameras, because there were four cameras there.

  

  Errol Morris
  • Camera
  • Interview
  • Different Ways

• It is a democratic uprising. I'd say a democratic revolution against imperialism and against capitalism. So the agreements between us, more than that, any cooperation means unconditional credit, while the US and some capitalist countries want to help us under conditions, under blackmail.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Country
  • Mean
  • Helping

• What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy

  

  Sean Parker
  • Winning
  • Revolution
  • Bureaucracy

• I am sorry to be so blunt, but I do not see much ambiguity here. [Barack] Obama was late to affirm the Egyptian revolution as a democratic movement, and even then he was eager to have installed those military leaders who were known for their practices of torture. And now he is quick to make allies with the Muslim Brotherhood for tactical reasons as well (though earlier that same administration stoked Islamophobic fear about that very political party).

  

  Judith Butler
  • Movement
  • Brotherhood
  • Torture

• The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Friends
  • Revolution
  • Gold

• The revolution eats its own. Capitalism re-creates itself.

  

  Mordecai Richler
  • Revolution
  • Capitalism

• We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and that above all can show us not that we can avoid changing our behaviour but we can change it in a way that is environmentally sustainable.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Technology
  • Challenges
  • Overcoming

• I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Struggle
  • Accepting
  • Democratic

• The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany

  

  George Will
  • Important
  • Revolution
  • Invention

• Rhetoric never won a revolution yet.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Revolution
  • Rhetoric

• The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Important
  • Prejudice
  • Abstract

• Historically the belief in heaven and the belief in utopia are like compensatory buckets in a well: when one goes down the other comes up. When the classic religions decayed, communistic agitation rose in Athens (430 B.C.), and revolution began in Rome (133 B.C.); when these movements failed, resurrection faiths succeeded, culminating in Christianity; when, in our eighteenth century, Christian belief weakened, communism reappeared. In this perspective the future of religion is secure.

  

  Will Durant
  • Christian
  • Heaven
  • Belief

• Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • People
  • Mind
  • Revolution

• To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Together
  • Transformation
  • Lifetime

• The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Word
  • Languages
  • Heroic

• A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • World
  • Age
  • Revolution

• True revolution comes not when we learn to ignore our fat and pretend we're no different, but when we learn to use it to our advantage, when we learn to deconstruct all the myths that propagate fat-hate.

  

  Nomy Lamm
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Advantage

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