Revolution Quotes

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.

A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

Revolution is not an event! It's a process

Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution; disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.

I believe the lasting revolution comes from deep changes in ourselves which influence our collective life.

I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative.

In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

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

This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.

At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.

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

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

No revolution is worth anything unless it can defend itself.

At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?'

After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.

There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.

All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.

When is revolution legal? When it succeeds!

In every Revolution a dictator is needed to save the state by force, or censors to save it by virtue.

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.

All revolutions devour their own children.

The social revolution is seriously compromised if it comes through a political revolution.

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

Celebrated in the Bob Dylan ballad “Joey”, Crazy Joe Gallo was a charismatic beatnik gangster whose forays into Greenwich Village in the 1960s inspired his bloody revolution against the Mafia.

You know, comrade Pachman, I don't enjoy being a Minister, I would rather play chess like you, or make a revolution in Venezuela.

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

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