Revolution Quotes - Page 18

I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

National boundaries these days are not that important because of transformative technological development. Now we are talking about the fourth industrial revolution.

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Revolutions never go backward.

If the States do not have the right to secede, then they have no rights at all.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

An artist represents an oppressed people and makes revolution irresistible.

As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice-there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community... this issue of paradigm choice can never be unequivocally settled by logic and experiment alone.

Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist ownership in private industry and commerce is bound to bring about a tremendous liberation of the productive forces. Thus, the social conditions are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and agricultural production.

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

Enclosures have been appropriately called a revolution of the rich against the poor.

I fell into a hornets' nest of revolutionary feminism.

Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial, frivolous, demure, and passive - because for us, there has been no act more bold and daring than embracing our own femininity. In a world that is awash in antifeminine sentiment, we understand that embracing and empowering femininity can potentially be one of the most transformative and revolutionary acts imaginable.

When the fabric of society is so rigid that it cannot change quickly enough, adjustments are achieved by social unrest and revolutions.

The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on the surface.

Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.

the truth is seldom found in extremes. Central truths can be revolutionary if put to work.

If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

Louis XVI started to die on June 21st 1791. For his flight tore away the veil of that false constitutional monarchy, and once more confronted the Patriot party with the whole problem of the revolution's future.

I feel that all revolutionary causes should start with addressing misogyny.

Music used to cause revolutions and I'm not seeing much revolution anymore.