Revolution Quotes - Page 21

When you brought the Industrial Revolution in, all of a sudden India and China went from being the dominant global powers to being powers dominated by those who understood how to apply this new technology.

Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

Revolution looks at the intersection ahead and pushes people to do the right thing.

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

Revolution is but thought carried into action.

All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it.

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.

Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.

The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.

I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived.

The classic trap for any revolutionary is always, 'What's your alternative?

The definition of a revolution: it destroys the perfect and enables the impossible.

You know how I always believe in the future. Without disorder, the revolution is impossible; knowing that, I did not lose hope, and I do not lose it now.

Lenin is not comparable to any revolutionary figure in history. Revolutionaries have had ideals. Lenin has none.

A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.

Your circumstances will only change when you begin to question them. Change begins with a question. Revolutions start with a question. Revolutionize your life.. Do not conform to the emptiness, the sadness, breakdown, failure, weakness...instead REVOLUTIONIZE your life & CONQUER your circumstances.