Revolution Quotes
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they can never forgive being ignored.
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".
Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.
In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.
What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution.
The onlooker had better wipe the sympathy off his face. What he has seen is a revolution, not the home of little cogs and drones. What he has seen is the dormitory of the next managerial class.
But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.
True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.
It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy, and especially of the decayed part of the aristocracy.
The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.
We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory.
We need an energy revolution by breaking our dependence on fossil fuels, polluting fuels... I am very, very confident our small state will lead this. We will be noticed by the country and the world.
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.
Cereal production in the rain-fed areas still remains relatively unaffected by the impact of the green revolution, but significant change and progress are now becoming evident in several countries
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I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.
Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.
Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.
Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.
Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
Social revolutions and group revolutions are good, and we need that, but we also need personal revolution - revolution within ourselves that change who we are as people.
Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.
Norway did not even have a revolution at the time the rest of Europe was busy figuring out human rights and stuff, because we were busy fighting over how to spell it.
Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that.
The revolution is carried out by means of one's thought, not through one's family background.
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.
A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.
Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while.
