Revolution Quotes - Page 13

It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow of capitalism, was to save its antagonist, both in war and in peace - that is to say, by providing it with the incentive, fear, to reform itself after the Second World War, and, by establishing the popularity of economic planning, furnishing it with some of the procedures for its reform

Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult.

Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction?

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

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.

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

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.

The envious are not satisfied with equality; they secretly yearn for superiority and revenge. In the French Revolution of 1848, a woman coal-heaver is said to have remarked to a richly dressed lady: 'Yes, madam, everything's going to be equal now; I shall go in silks and you'll carry coal.'

I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!

All revolutions are impossible until they happen. Then they become inevitable

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

Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.

When we live the love of the Gospel out loud, a revolution will occur.

Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act.

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.

The most revolutionary statement in history is "Love thine enemy

Don't hesitate to be as revolutionary as science. Don't hesitate to be as reactionary as the multiplication table.

A revolution is a violent change of mismanagement.

The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.

Hungry people make the best revolutionaries. Because when you're hungry, it's easy to get angry about things that aren't right.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution is a duty!

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.