Revolution Quotes - Page 20

The most lasting and universal consequence of the French revolution is the metric system

I think everybody wants to be the best at what they do and for me I was never really there, plus it was in a time that just preceded the insanity of internet promotion around 2005 and 2006. Obviously through the digital revolution things have moved very quickly and a lot of artists got left behind.

I was always doing revolutionary things, things that would alert people, so they would stop being so subservient.

I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.

Education is the motor-force of revolution.

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.

Never paint epic canvases during the revolution, because the revolutionaries will tear them apart.

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

Without a revolutionary theory there cannot be a revolutionary movement.

The suppression of the bourgeois state by the proletarian state is impossible without violent revolution.

It is in prison ... that one becomes a real revolutionary.

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.

What I'm advocating is an intellectual revolution - it's a different mindset concerning the ethical benchmarks by which we live.

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

The Islamic Revolution of Iran is honourable for it is the cry which has its origin in Ayatollah Khomeini's conscience.

Revolution is born as a social entity within the oppressor society.

I think it's like the '60s - we're going to see another revolution in film where these new filmmakers stand up and take ownership of what film is and mould it into what they want.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.

If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

It's the occasion that makes the revolution.

The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.