Revolution Quotes - Page 26

But here's some advice, boy. Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions.

The saddest illusion of the revolutionary is that revolution itself will transform the nature of human beings.

Rather than finding the devil "out there," we battle the devil within us. The revolution starts inside each of us.

The ending of partition was inevitable because Ireland was one nation by history and tradition , by facts of race, geography, and economy

We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began here in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous.

REVOLUTIONARY: An oppressed person waiting for the opportunity to become an oppressor.

The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things.

Do you think if the stamp-act is repealed, that the North Americans will be satisfied?

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

I don't. We've had three technological revolutions that have changed the course of human history, all driven by physics. In the first, the industrial revolution, physicists developed Newtonian mechanics and thermodynamics, which gave us the steam engine and machine power. The second technological revolution was the electricity revolution. That gave us radio, television, and telecommunications. Then, physicists developed the laser and the transistor.

Thinkers prepare the revolution and bandits carry it out.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.

We were the most conservative revolutionaries in history.

Traditional communication design and the digital revolution will certainly blend and integrate, as clients’ communications needs rarely involve just one medium.

With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.

In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

Where ever i go, the Cultural Revolution followed me

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

The relationship between [John] Adams and [Tomas] Jefferson was extraordinary. They differed on every conceivable issue, except on the Revolution and the love of their country.

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

You must see yourself as guardian, somebody who will preserve what is true and pass it on. Be a guardian. We don't need militants or revolutionaries. We need guardians. We need leaders.

The consequences of militancy do not disappear when the need for militancy is over.